He's quiet for a while, mulling it over. Hasn't got a clue what book Aaron's talking about, but the sentiment's clear enough. It's an awful, resonant image; he can feel it again, the futility of the anger he'd clung to out there in the darkness, the terrible reality of their punishment.

It's the kind of thing he would have agreed with, once, without questioning it. Of course that's what the future would bring, that's what human nature is. The past few years he's tried so goddamn hard to believe things could be different. That they could make things different. Build a better future, because that's who they were.

Now he wonders if it's inevitable. Maybe you just find another boot.

"We're gonna," he says with a fierce certainty that takes him by surprise. No more mistakes. No more prices paid. The world Negan is building, it has to be torn down.