"That's true," he admits easily enough. "I kind of hate you. But I'm also smarter than that."

And he very much believes the man here. Tarn seems like an opportunist in basically every way, and there's no reason for most people to care about either side of his conflict. Under normal circumstances he could sympathize. Drawn into a foreign conflict in a foreign body, no way back ...

No wonder he's getting his kicks by murdering everything. And being a big jerk.

"You need to be on the winning side," he says. "That's the only way you get back to who you were."