"Leadership without communication is not leadership. If she were doing so, it would give the people hope and the knowledge they were cared about, to be told that. They would excuse much, for that hope." Hope is something that is very hard to extinguish, once lit. But there had been very little hope lit here, especially by the faction leaders.

Calgar, their chapter master, had come to their aid when they had needed him. That the faction leader had led her people die, lose everything, without even helping in the aftermath, not even providing a free meal for the refugees was a poor comparison.

Sure, not everyone could be Marneus Calgar. But the faction leaders were lacking.