[For a moment, he doesn't reply, expression sober, as if he's carefully picking his next words.]

I ... disagree. I would rather those I know and trust over strangers any day. It isn't that there's something 'wrong' with strangers, but they are ... unknown. How do you trust a stranger with an experiment, never mind a life?

[After a moment, it's waved off. Xehanort trusts nobody, friends are ... difficult, and he doesn't want to dwell on it.]

But we can't influence the dreamwidth as we are. I dare say I would not have been able to even when I was a god. Then too, people came and went at the whim of greater powers.