THE LIABILITY CLAUSE
she said, out loud, to the empty room, and Jonah, coming in behind her with two more boxes from the archive, stopped in the doorway.
"What?"
"He's not a villain. Villains believe they're doing something wrong and do it anyway. He doesn't believe that. He believes he's gardening." She turned to look at her brother. "That's what makes him dangerous, Jonah. That's what made him able to find me. I was the perfect tool because I believed the same thing he believed. I believed I was gardening too. I believed the people I cleared out of the way deserved it, or at least that it didn't matter whether they did, because the outcome justified the method. He didn't have to convince me of his worldview. I