"I should say this for the benefit of few and displeasure of most."
The professor started, standing before the minimal crowd. Those in present at that moment were silhouette of what they used to be in numbers.
"And to bring more light on this to those who have been held in doubt since quite a while."
He added. He was peering directly at them all. At least to where his eyes could bear him. But he didn't bother straining.
He could see distress etched in the face of majority of them. He had no power to clean it off. He would only make a stance.
"Even though you all know what it is like to trust."
He added as he dragged in a loop of air. He was sure that they knew where he was driving with the point of the 'trust'.
Even his right hand man had gone with the tribesmen to start a borrowed life. He wasn't so hurt. He knew what humans could be.