You're not wrong. Yet all I can strive for is an ideal. An ideal is what mobilizes people, what causes them to care... if I can create a world that will continue to strive for it even after I'm gone, then I'll have done my part.

[He chuckled a bit.]

It was my entire life. It's hard to leave it behind, especially in this place. It reminds me much of my home. Shapeshifters and spirits and giant turtles... it's the stuff of legends where I'm from.