I never said 'idiocy', I said 'fools'. After all, a man ignorant is more apt to make mistakes and be easily manipulated than one who is not so.

Predisposition to madness? Seeing everything I had even a slightest bit of affection or fondness to become little more than ruinous tatters? Dying in rapid succession? There are so many applicable explanations - but perhaps none apply...

As to these? [he pleasantly flashes his canines] Just a virus I picked up on the last planet I was on. Nothing more.