" ... I see. So it was done in order to win your own freedom. "
she lowers her gaze to her hands, gloved fingers twisting together, a stark white against the deep brown of her uniform. her long hair hides her face; she wouldn't have seen erin to begin with.
what the older woman describes is an incredibly difficult situation. an attempt to liberate oneself from such a horrible life, even at the expense of others ... it reminded her so very much of anise's situation, where she'd provided information to the enemy for the sake of her parents. it was tough, something impossible to weigh with just ethics alone when there was also the question of survival.
her morals overlap with logic as she considers what this all must mean. would she have done the same, in erin's shoes? it would be easy to say she wouldn't, without ever having known all of that suffering first-hand. it would have been a break in the monotony, and many people would have done anything just for the opportunity of that alone.
" What you did was wrong. "
her voice is calm again, almost casual: she is simply stating a truth.
" But I understand why you had to do it. "
the guilt of it probably weighs heavy on erin, much like the gravity of even just understanding it does to tear. these were living beings they were talking about, after all: every single one of them had had precious lives.
but was what erin did worse than what her brother had done, or what grand maestro mohs did with all of the replicas? what luke had to do, with sacrificing so many replica lives?
" It sounds like you're already on the path to atonement. "
the erin who sits before her certainly sounds nothing like the pirate, liz malloy.
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Date: 2022-12-15 04:25 am (UTC)she lowers her gaze to her hands, gloved fingers twisting together, a stark white against the deep
brown of her uniform. her long hair hides her face; she wouldn't have seen erin to begin with.
what the older woman describes is an incredibly difficult situation. an attempt to liberate oneself from
such a horrible life, even at the expense of others ... it reminded her so very much of anise's
situation, where she'd provided information to the enemy for the sake of her parents. it was tough,
something impossible to weigh with just ethics alone when there was also the question of survival.
her morals overlap with logic as she considers what this all must mean. would she have done the same,
in erin's shoes? it would be easy to say she wouldn't, without ever having known all of that suffering
first-hand. it would have been a break in the monotony, and many people would have
done anything just for the opportunity of that alone.
" What you did was wrong. "
her voice is calm again, almost casual: she is simply stating a truth.
" But I understand why you had to do it. "
the guilt of it probably weighs heavy on erin, much like the gravity of even just
understanding it does to tear. these were living beings they were talking about,
after all: every single one of them had had precious lives.
but was what erin did worse than what her brother had done, or what grand maestro mohs
did with all of the replicas? what luke had to do, with sacrificing so many replica
lives?
" It sounds like you're already on the path to atonement. "
the erin who sits before her certainly sounds nothing like the pirate, liz malloy.