'How very convenient for you, a reason to justify your actions.' Chris bites their lip to keep from saying it. That's not fair. But they just watched César calmly destroy his own creation because its sentience was a mistake and a danger, and also set things up so the people around him would assume someone else did it. All quite coldly... in Chris's view.

"And there was no reasoning with her, was there?" Chris tries for calm, but some of their doubt probably shows in the tone of their question. (Unspoken: did you even try?)

God, their head hurts. A little more blood drips from their nose.