[Gods, that makes Ethlyn's heart hurt--it's true. She knows how that feels, as a healer and a tactician, when you can't find an injury or you arrive too late to do more than ease a soldier's passing. There are so many what-ifs and maybes and Ethlyn has learned to live with them during her time being a healer on the battlefield. But this is so much bigger than that.
Is she responsible for the evil that's gripped the continent since she departed it? Marianne's words are what she would say herself to someone else in the same situation... perhaps she ought to try and reach past her own horror and pain to believe it.]
...perhaps. [Its still difficult to even try and feel when she sees the consequence of being unable to defeat them, laid so bare.] I know I'm not responsible for their choices. But---to see it like this--
[She shakes her head, unable to find the words to describe the chasm her feelings lie in.]
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Is she responsible for the evil that's gripped the continent since she departed it? Marianne's words are what she would say herself to someone else in the same situation... perhaps she ought to try and reach past her own horror and pain to believe it.]
...perhaps. [Its still difficult to even try and feel when she sees the consequence of being unable to defeat them, laid so bare.] I know I'm not responsible for their choices. But---to see it like this--
[She shakes her head, unable to find the words to describe the chasm her feelings lie in.]