As Faxul spoke again, he understood that that was not the case.
"What he means is that you should keep your apology to yourself. All of us weren't blind. We saw the kind of powers you were dealing with. All of us could place ourselves in your position, and all of us know that we would only be a hindrance: we would probably have died with the first attack, and you can't do anything about that. It's the bitter truth, one that we've been seeing every year: your power far outstrips ours."
Daneel was quite surprised as he heard this – not at what his best friend was saying, but the fact that he was the one who was speaking so much. Faxul always weighed his words as if they were made of gold: he only used as many as were absolutely necessary, and if he was speaking now, that meant that whatever he was saying was so vital that it affected the very core of his heart.
