I believe so as well. [she looks down at her hands.] I may have had my doubts, but... those doubts were not concrete enough evidence to bet Miss Firefly's life on. Particularly not when...
[her voice trails off. well. when hawke had clearly been unstable and they wouldn't have known how to keep him from killing anyone else.
she cannot imagine hawke would have wanted to live like that, were he in his right mind.]
He was the clear aggressor, and with the waters muddied as they were, it would have been bad for both morale and our continued peace if we voted for a soft-spoken girl claiming self defense against a boy known widely for instigating violence.
If I cannot rely on morality or emotion, strategy should come first.
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In any case. [ ... ] As impossible a choice as it is, I think this was the right one.
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[her voice trails off. well. when hawke had clearly been unstable and they wouldn't have known how to keep him from killing anyone else.
she cannot imagine hawke would have wanted to live like that, were he in his right mind.]
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If I cannot rely on morality or emotion, strategy should come first.
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Yes. Precisely so. I just... wish it had not been so easy for so many people to believe that of him.