[ Gil exhales, amused. It's a denial that he had to expect. They've known each other too long to not be aware of Rau's go-to reason for being alive - or maybe it should be called an excuse? Gil still believes that there is something even more raw to find below it. ]

Yet our disdain for their pitiful small-minded depravity is one and the same.

[ He taps their middle fingers together but does not leave them connected. ]

You would give him and the likes of him the weapons to annihilate themselves completely, while I would much prefer to destroy with more precision, yes. But both of us wish to see them rotting in the rubble of their war-mongering.