"Yeah, I know." Soldat collects the stone again, looking down at it sadly. "Wasn't right, what we did to them. Little girls shouldn't have to know how to kill people." Most people shouldn't have to know how to kill people.

They don't know what else they could have done, though. Every scenario they can come up with ends in death. They close their metal fingers over the stone, not activating it, but keeping it safe and close. "Was the only kinda love the Asset knew, though."