I understand the reasoning well enough, Stephanie, and I assure you that I, at least, have no intention of sacrificing myself needlessly.
[But this is killing her and she makes little attempt to hide it. It takes a lot to get an elf to show strain, especially one as old as Galadriel, but this...]
That does not change the fact that the Initiative is saving their army at the expense of their people. We abandon them only to save them; I understand that is what they say. But they will suffer still.
[A sigh and she glances down at the floor.]
Where I am from, there are few sins graver than for an elf to slay another elf; each such conflict is marked a "kinslaying" and held a tragedy in the history of our people. None but the most vile would think of attacking a civilian target. [Just ignore the fact that...her cousins pretty much did exactly that. Uncomfortable family history is mostly irrelevant here.] And a leader has the duty to see to his people- falling with them, if he must.
[bitterly:] It is my misfortune, I suppose, that I have not lost my sense of honor; it seems to have little place in this world.
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[But this is killing her and she makes little attempt to hide it. It takes a lot to get an elf to show strain, especially one as old as Galadriel, but this...]
That does not change the fact that the Initiative is saving their army at the expense of their people. We abandon them only to save them; I understand that is what they say. But they will suffer still.
[A sigh and she glances down at the floor.]
Where I am from, there are few sins graver than for an elf to slay another elf; each such conflict is marked a "kinslaying" and held a tragedy in the history of our people. None but the most vile would think of attacking a civilian target. [Just ignore the fact that...her cousins pretty much did exactly that. Uncomfortable family history is mostly irrelevant here.] And a leader has the duty to see to his people- falling with them, if he must.
[bitterly:] It is my misfortune, I suppose, that I have not lost my sense of honor; it seems to have little place in this world.