"We made the best choices we could with the information we had. But there were things we couldn't know. Some of them mattered very much, in the end. That certain men in power would break their solemn word of honor, that rain would ruin the powder, that this time the Guard would not turn in any great number." A small gesture: and so forth.

"This is a chance to make those choices again, with better information. At the least, to save more lives. At the best, to change the course of events."