...Your concept of morality is difficult for a being such as myself to comprehend. I have killed before, but always for specific reasons. Those deaths were not crimes to myself but acts of mercy, and would not have been considered crimes to mankind, I think.

[Yeah, he means he's put animals to sleep before. Still, he says it completely seriously, and in his own view of the world it doesn't seem like an inaccurate statement to make.]


Yet much of what I believe to be despicable is lawful in your world, as well. But I am indeed a being of great evil, for reasons I would not be able to explain, not yet.

I do not maintain any pretense I would not commit murder to further my own ends, or claim to not be so wicked as to deserve suspicion.