[ He didn't want the sight of his own corpse to be upsetting. He'd seen plenty of corpses, made plenty of corpses, and he'd already been told that this guy was him, so the shock should have faded. But there was just something about looking at your own face, pale and slack, that was... unsettling.

It almost made the bullshit coming out of the guy's mouth sound reasonable. ]

What do you know about the people that matter to me, huh? Are you talkin' about the kids? [ He gestured broadly behind him, indicating Hopeland and the whole southwest in one angry wave of his hand. ] Because the only thing I want to hear you say about them is confirming that the Eye left them alone after what I did for 'em.