I know what you mean. [He chuckles softly before it dies off.]

I was never nice. I tried to be good but I was terrible at that too. [He offers her a wry smile. He feels more like himself now, but he feels emotionally exhausted and wrung out, the way he would after a fight when the resentful energy finally started to seep out of his body.]

I was a heretic and a defector in my world, so you know. [he gestures around them] Not good at following the rules.