You overestimate the human state of mind, of human relations.

[but jack has calmed down again, enough to pick up the orange and throw a segment at Rufus' head. It's all in good fun, though--! (next time it'll be the knife.)]

I killed Glen Baskerville. I remade the country. The tale still continued even after I had disappeared, and history had forgotten the defeated, remembered only the victors. What makes you think any of you can stop me?

[he asks, curiously.]