[ again, ice enters her tone. she feels scorn rise inside her at the idea that she should have to justify her actions to a boy from not only the past but a different past, whose path would never have converged with her own. the arrogance of the boar—felix really was right about him. ]
You're making many assumptions about our war. We uplifted the weak, we didn't trample them. It's always an unavoidably messy, bloody thing, but we weren't the ones setting noble houses against one another in senseless conflict for a scheme, [ her voice rises, anger starting to set in as she gets to her feet, glaring at dimitri's back. ] we weren't the ones turning our soldiers into monsters in a desperate effort to stop progress, or the ones leading good men and women to die on a mad quest for vengeance, and we certainly weren't the people burning cities out of spite!
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[ again, ice enters her tone. she feels scorn rise inside her at the idea that she should have to justify her actions to a boy from not only the past but a different past, whose path would never have converged with her own. the arrogance of the boar—felix really was right about him. ]
You're making many assumptions about our war. We uplifted the weak, we didn't trample them. It's always an unavoidably messy, bloody thing, but we weren't the ones setting noble houses against one another in senseless conflict for a scheme, [ her voice rises, anger starting to set in as she gets to her feet, glaring at dimitri's back. ] we weren't the ones turning our soldiers into monsters in a desperate effort to stop progress, or the ones leading good men and women to die on a mad quest for vengeance, and we certainly weren't the people burning cities out of spite!