(Abby nods, absorbing this. In case River was thinking it, worrying, she's quick to assure her.) It doesn't change anything for me either. (She'd be a fucking hypocrite if she dared judge anybody for their past actions, huh.

She sighs. It comes out a little easier than it did with Loki.) I killed somebody that she loved, because he killed somebody that I loved.

(It's not an excuse, just the truth.) ... And because I did that, she retaliated. I think we could have kept going on like that until we destroyed everything around us. But we didn't.