I think you have reached your conclusion and now cast aspersions on those who do not share your view of it; I do not know if anything I say will truly sway you when you think we lack compassion.

[ There's a pause. Dimitri is... not exactly angry, but perhaps frustrated. ]

The dead have more value to me than you know. I live in their shadow. I mourn the dead. But we also have to live. I spent years carrying their burdens and trying to make up for what I thought were my own failings for them.