[The answer is obvious to him. But he doubts it will ever be to Dylan. Maybe it's for the best. It would probably bother him more.]

Then... I want to apologize. Not for doing what I haven't done, nor for siding with my people when I didn't want them taken advantage of, but for waiting that long to tell you why I was bothered.

I suspect- I can say why I hadn't prior to coming here. I was hoping that it wouldn't be necessary. [He forgets, sometimes, Dylan thinks like a human, and probably never looked more deeply at anything he did until long after the fact.]