" You do not wish him dead?” said the twain.

“No,” I said. “I don’t wish anyone dead.”

“He would not have any pity for you if your places were reversed.”

“It isn’t pity,” I said. “It’s . . . I don’t know. Something else. Humanity?”

“Is that what humanity looks like?” said the twain. “Would that all humans possessed humanity. "

― William Ritter , The Dire King (Jackaby, #4)