you're ready to go (Fiori)
02-13-2015, 03:32 PM
He blinked warily at the seriousness and faint bitterness to her tone as Pip spoke of justice. "Maybe not," he replied with equal gravity. "But to act in such a way that would prevent your enemy from harming anyone else any more, to protect more innocents from their depravity, to act from a desire to help others rather than from a desire to cause harm, does that not elevate it over revenge in some way? A mother sending her child to sleep without dinner as punishment for a wrong done in the desire to help them learn not to do it again, instead of a mother who is depriving their child of food because they dislike them or in an effort to cause them distress." It was interesting, exciting, to genuinely discuss these plans with others, instead of telling someone this was what the plan was. He'd felt... isolated from this sort of equality lately, since it was his duty to lead, to take care of the pack as much as their duty drove them to support him and... it could feel lonely. Sigmarr and Sindri were there, but until recently they'd still been broken and scattered from their experience and it had been he who needed to be there for them. They were still hurt, still in recovery, but they were on the road to healing... He gave a nod of understanding at her offer. "I understand," he said tentatively. "Most of Ebony is my family also. My siblings mostly, but some cousins who went through a really traumatic event in my family's old pack that I'd prefer to protect them from if I can. I will do whatever I can to keep Ebony's trouble from your pack. If you ever find Fiori in danger," he added, most earnestly, "you can count on Ebony to be here in a heartbeat to protect your family. That's... that's what I want Ebony to be, after all. But... I can't and won't promise to follow Fiori to war if it's unjust. Not that I think you'd do anything like that but..." He stopped, a bit flustered, the white tips of his ears burning in embarrassment, but it was truth. He couldn't put Sindri and Sigmarr and the others in a position where they might to need to compromise their own morals just because he'd made a bad decision. Trying to move past his embarrassment, he added cautiously, "We'd also be willing to trade learning with Fiori if that's something you'd be interested in. We have a couple healers but I'd like to learn more about it myself, and it would be good to have new people for Ebony's warriors to spar with and learn beside. If you have good navigators, or trackers... We would share what knowledge we have with your people." |