I'm not saying you need anything from me, as I'm sure you don't. There're a great many cruelties in my world...isn't it normal that I recognize them as such?

[ He doesn't expect an answer, viewing it in his own mind as rhetorical. Like most any halfway-decent Faerghan, he expects, of course he knows an injustice for what it is. It isn't his place to ask that she elaborate, but if she meant that bit about arms literally, how could it be anything but cruel?

Besides, she didn't say it wasn't.

Stranger that he is, he doubts there's more he can say on the matter. But even as a crime lord, he has some standards... And he can well imagine what people in power will do to those without, because he'd come from nothing himself. ]

Have people who joined that side actually said that to you?

[ He'd met someone from Zenith who shared his wariness of all this, and he's certain that was genuine. She joined, she'd said, because she wanted to be able to heal people. ]

I hail from a continent at war. It wasn't nearly so tidy as that, even though my nation was being invaded.