It may not be exactly the same, but I've had a score or two to settle for others.

[ Yuri wouldn't try to pretty it up. The reality that some lives were ended early and brutally is one they know all too well. For those who were victims, all they can do is ensure that justice is served, even when it's no less violent than the original offense.

He knows just as well that the only family he has ever had still lives, and it seems in more than one world, this isn't so for Dimitri. ]

Were it my own mother... [ The very thought seizes his throat harshly. He takes a moment before he finishes his thought. ] I'd be a more hateful creature than you felt yourself to be, I'd wager.

[ For his mother has only ever been steadfastly kind, despite the hand that life had dealt her. ]