I thank you for the kind words then, many consider me a monster because of my stature and abilities.

[ He is quiet for a moment, considering. ] We have apprehension, and once I knew fear that my gene-father would die, if only because... no son wishes death upon his father. No son worthy of the name, anyway. [ His voice is momentarily very bitter. ]

As for fear of failure, loss of my brethren, or failure in my oaths? Well, I am sometimes apprehensive about those things, and our litany does describe our fear as only of failing, but my brethren are already dead, so I have nothing left to lose on that account.