War is an ugly thing, no matter what your solution to it might be. Does one cleanse and treat the wound and risk infection? Or sever it entirely in the hopes of building something better? All the while lives hang in the balance, and any life lost is a waste.

[ Lest he mistake her for being in favor of any of this, much less the killing. She understands that these things are sometimes necessary but honestly. One would hope that they would eventually evolve past this base need to tear one another to pieces when they could be building something better.

It's wearying for everyone, true. ]

Is it not? You don't seem the sort to relish conflict.

[ An eyebrow crooks. She could be wrong, but he seems more sensible on the surface than that. ]