Pitiful, the way the envoys told it — homeless wanderers, all of that. It was only a gloss over the fact that they had betrayed their own kind: the stability faction was a pack of traitors greedy for comfort and pleasure, unwilling to lift a finger for their homeland.
Whether he looked at it from his own standpoint or the Mage World's, there was not a shred of sympathy in Adam's heart. Once he had come to the Dragon Plane as an exploration Mage and discovered the Katos Plane, almost certainly a trove of resources of astonishing value, a predator's stride could no longer be halted.
"The world of Katos has already become a dead zone. Nothing remains there but endless disaster and monsters who, like us, live a life worse than death. They have no value at all."