Only egoists and the truly desperate allow themselves to think that people they have hurt will ever listen to them.

[This statement applies on the surface to what Chari has just told him. How many times has Diarmuid seen the beaten, battered, and suffering turn into the fiercest fighters he has ever known? He understands why they turned on those who made them how they are. However, the statement is also a warning. How long do they think they can continue to do what they are doing to the residents in the city before said residents find a way to do exactly what they did to their creators?

And which are they? The egoists or the truly desperate?]

So not only are you in pain, but you did once know the peace that lack of pain brings. That is why you can so easily imagine it.

[No wonder not having it makes the pain even worse.]