One side of his mouth twists, viciously pleased for a moment. "It was a multi-pronged effort. To my knowledge, several individuals were involved."
He studies the pale cicatrical line running over both wrists, unable or unwilling to meet the TARDIS's eyes fully due to some instinct he cannot put a name to. It had been reasonable to explain. Reasonable, and he owed her that. That much had been obvious.
"Asadi and I may have been among them," he concludes, refusing to fall into the atypical sensation of guilt whose origins are quite beyond him. "We may have caused - significant damage to the organization at large." They may have headbutted the proverbial snake, severing the head by strangling the neck, driving the rest of the writhing, squirming thing into the dirt. After what was done to him at the snake's metaphorical hands, he had been equipped to generate the fallout and had seen no reason not to do so.
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He studies the pale cicatrical line running over both wrists, unable or unwilling to meet the TARDIS's eyes fully due to some instinct he cannot put a name to. It had been reasonable to explain. Reasonable, and he owed her that. That much had been obvious.
"Asadi and I may have been among them," he concludes, refusing to fall into the atypical sensation of guilt whose origins are quite beyond him. "We may have caused - significant damage to the organization at large." They may have headbutted the proverbial snake, severing the head by strangling the neck, driving the rest of the writhing, squirming thing into the dirt. After what was done to him at the snake's metaphorical hands, he had been equipped to generate the fallout and had seen no reason not to do so.