He gets that same sickly feeling of betrayal he's felt off and on since he first realized that Aornis was not who she pretended to be around him. "That -- that poor -- poor Tress. It's completely -- I --" He takes a deep breath. "I still feel terrible that I didn't know you all were going through all of this, up until the end of things. I should've been able to help -- hell, she was messing with everyone's minds, that's basically my juris-fucking-diction, after all, and I --" He takes another deep breath. "I'm so sorry, dear."