"It means that I was under the impression that you had established the Guard all that time ago to help people, not so that you could fool yourself into thinking that it's worth sacrificing them for some 'greater good', or to form fucked up alliances with someone willing to hand them all over to an even worse enemy."

Rey's jaw grits. She wants to stay calm, but all of the things Maketh had told her in the past start to come together. And she gets it -- she does. She wants to believe that Maketh did everything with the best intentions.

That tends to be where it all goes wrong, right?

"This city is not your Empire. You are not an officer of your Imperial Court. Those are the assholes who killed you because you were trying to do what you felt was right. Are you going to stand there and tell me that they were right all along? Is that where you're going?"