Betrayal. He knows very well what that feels like. How easy it is for a man to reach a point where he will make excuses for anything and stop seeing people as people. Perhaps the problem is he simply stops caring.

It's bitter. It's always bitter.

Ratonhnhaké:ton takes a deep breath, turning his gaze to the sky as he thinks about Washington, and Adams and his Sons of Liberty. How they would talk about freedom yet hold people in chains and sell them as property.

"It seems it is easy to talk, and much more difficult to act accordingly."