Her words mollify him. Maybe he liked her agreeing with him.

"I don't want that thing alive." It's not even angry, the way a landslide isn't angry. "Every moment he lives and breathes is a travesty. And me, me too.

"I paid for what I did, for what little that was worth, stupid as it was. There's nothing left for me here, and nothing in the hell that shitstain has made of the world."