[ She shakes her head, not - not cruelly this time. She's met plenty of naive people, in her life, Sir Galahad among them. How desperately he clung to his understand of the world. That his precious Lords could not be part of such slaughter, such cruelty, such treatment of life. ]
Perhaps I would. [ She pauses, trying to form the words. ] You need to understand, then, that you are and you will be, if you ever assist them, the cause of thousands more deaths. They will not be in battle, not all of them, they will be in famine, in disease, in disabuse. You say that it means nothing, now, because many people have such short life spans, then I will put it to you in centuries, for that is how long, if they win, these people will suffer. Just like my own do.
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Perhaps I would. [ She pauses, trying to form the words. ] You need to understand, then, that you are and you will be, if you ever assist them, the cause of thousands more deaths. They will not be in battle, not all of them, they will be in famine, in disease, in disabuse. You say that it means nothing, now, because many people have such short life spans, then I will put it to you in centuries, for that is how long, if they win, these people will suffer. Just like my own do.