Anyone can be cruel.

Cruelty is easy, and Preston proved it.

What is hard, and what is actually powerful, is to have every means and every reason for vengeance, and to choose the slower, cleaner, lawful path anyway, not out of weakness but out of a strength so complete it has no need to prove itself with fists.

My brothers were the most powerful people in that room precisely because they were the most restrained.

That was the lesson.