They offered their sadness.
They looked upon me and saw how unprepared I was.
They remarked on their privilege, as they, by following their nature nurtured the land and life, and I by following my nature doomed entire peoples to oblivion.
For my nature is to accept my culture and expect it to flourish, while handed a culture based on alienation from life and extraction of wealth. A skin cell in a tumor riddled body.