[A reaction that Snow was not expecting was swords drawn. Not that he expected to end up the one who swung first if it came to that, but it still caught him off guard to see people already willing to cut him down.]

Whoa, hey. Easy. I'm not trying to fight you guys. I don't want to fight any of you!

[Though the possibility of avoiding a fight seemed less and less likely by the second. He wracked his brain, scrambling for something to make them listen.]

Listen, guys. I know... I know that this isn't an easy decision to make. I know! I had to go through it too, but...

If I had to choose between saving the handful of people who could be cured by those seeds, or saving everyone in the world...

[Another sigh. His next few words were going to be hard to say, and it showed in his voice.]

If there's anything I've learned the hard way, over and over again, it's that you can't save everyone.

You - you just can't.

[If he were in the proper state of mind to do so, he would recognize just how wrong that sounded to him. No matter how bad things had gotten for Snow throughout the years, he'd never been in favor of just giving up on people (other than himself, anyway). It wasn't who he was.]