( he blinks, collecting the letter she'd shoved at him to read it, eyebrows continuing to rise as he does. what in the worlds? )
... If she were older, I'd accept her decision and her family's, because it's... not done for us to say which family is making what decision for the members of their families. When they're not sacrificing them.
( that's beyond anything he can imagine. family is meant to matter more, and if you kill all your younger generation, what do you expect? )
We might ask if her brothers have said they also wish to stay and fall the fortress, defending Hell. And what she wishes for her people, when the fortress falls, since she has to have an opinion even if it's one her brothers gave her.
( he looks so deeply puzzled and concerned over all this. )
We won't be convincing her of much of anything, so we may as well... keep her engaged with something else to think on than the slow fall of everything her family's stood for.
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... If she were older, I'd accept her decision and her family's, because it's... not done for us to say which family is making what decision for the members of their families. When they're not sacrificing them.
( that's beyond anything he can imagine. family is meant to matter more, and if you kill all your younger generation, what do you expect? )
We might ask if her brothers have said they also wish to stay and fall the fortress, defending Hell. And what she wishes for her people, when the fortress falls, since she has to have an opinion even if it's one her brothers gave her.
( he looks so deeply puzzled and concerned over all this. )
We won't be convincing her of much of anything, so we may as well... keep her engaged with something else to think on than the slow fall of everything her family's stood for.