"Don't give me that, you pathetic excuse for a highblood," Equius snapped. "You have always been much more intelligent than you ever let anybody see, and that in itself is disgraceful. You are wasting your potential and doing your caste a grave disservice. But perhaps it is better that you killed me," he continued, "for it has given me the chance to really think about my conduct, as well as yours. And what I know about each of us is that while I may have conducted myself poorly, I never once hurt those that I considered on some level to be comrades. You, on the other hand, took it upon yourself in your pursuit of whatever position could be gained at the demon's side to kill half of what remained of our race. You should be ashamed of what you did, not just to Nepeta, but what you did to all of us. Including your moirail."