[She is no better- if not for different reasons. That is why she has to force herself to put things into halting words, to test, to doubt, because if she does not... She has been made a fool each time she assumed.]
I said... it did not have to be me. That is why.
[Even if she trusts herself the most...]
I am not the sort of naive thing that thinks such underhanded tactics have no place in war. The stakes are such that I will not condemn it. Perhaps with this, those amongst Zenith who are there only for a single Shard might reconsider...
[But. She had said it to Set more than once. So she will say it to Liem, too.]
... It could be beneath you, too, though. If you wished.
[Not a statement on his morals... but on what he was capable of. What he wasn't confined to, even if he thought himself...]
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I said... it did not have to be me. That is why.
[Even if she trusts herself the most...]
I am not the sort of naive thing that thinks such underhanded tactics have no place in war. The stakes are such that I will not condemn it. Perhaps with this, those amongst Zenith who are there only for a single Shard might reconsider...
[But. She had said it to Set more than once. So she will say it to Liem, too.]
... It could be beneath you, too, though. If you wished.
[Not a statement on his morals... but on what he was capable of. What he wasn't confined to, even if he thought himself...]