( In all honesty, Kate very nearly voted for death out of a sense of pure anger and hurt at what happened. She'd genuinely trusted Delight and, ironically, Delight's offer to protect her after the hitlist went out only served to strengthen Kate's resolve to help defend the city. But she agrees with Rage's point of view - should they kill one of the gods, it'd be their kind of luck that leaves them with a situation where all of the gods are needed. Especially now, with Sorrow dead.
For a moment, the only sound is her breath on the other sound of the line. )
We kill her, we're cutting off another resource. ( Said as matter-of-factly as always, the sound of fingers drumming against a surface of some kind quiet in the background. ) If she's alive and here, we can figure out some way of making her useful.
( Whether Hope is right that they can convince her, or whether that requires something more forceful and cruel, it seems pointless to destroy yet another resource at a time when they have so few of them. )
[Henry considers her words, weighing her argument, letting it help to clarify his own thoughts on the matter.]
...Yet she has lost us Sorrow, and limited what Hope can afford us. Keeping her imprisoned costs the gods effort they might otherwise put to use to aiding our survival. How can she be useful without making slack her fetters? Unrepentant as she is, 'twould be folly.
[He argues, but not necessarily because he thinks that Kate is wrong.]
( His points aren't wrong, and with how well her conversation with Delight is going, Kate has to fight to keep herself from sounding too emotional about it. )
... True. ( She inhales sharply. The thought of cutting off the kind of power even one of the gods offers them grates immensely, but Kate can't deny that Henry is right - keeping Delight captured and here could cost them more of the gods' resources in the long run. ) No risk of rescue or escape if she's dead.
( She can't start thinking about this as a moral judgement, because who is she to judge that, when the city still bears the scars from her own desperate attempt all that time ago? But more to the point, she can't think that way because her emotions scream kill her for betraying her family rather than anything else. )
Might want to ask Tranquility how difficult containing her will be.
( Because that would certainly answer the question about how much of a drain an unrepentant prisoner would be on them. )
( A while ago, she'd probably have said yes. But the situation's changed so much that Kate finds herself taking pause. )
Dunno.
( Honestly. This entire trial is just another reminder that their captors don't work in the same way the people brought to Hadriel do. )
Doubt they even know what they're doing about that.
( Judging by the fact that they can't agree on what to do with one traitor, who knows what the arguments about keeping them around or sending them home is like. )
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For a moment, the only sound is her breath on the other sound of the line. )
We kill her, we're cutting off another resource. ( Said as matter-of-factly as always, the sound of fingers drumming against a surface of some kind quiet in the background. ) If she's alive and here, we can figure out some way of making her useful.
( Whether Hope is right that they can convince her, or whether that requires something more forceful and cruel, it seems pointless to destroy yet another resource at a time when they have so few of them. )
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...Yet she has lost us Sorrow, and limited what Hope can afford us. Keeping her imprisoned costs the gods effort they might otherwise put to use to aiding our survival. How can she be useful without making slack her fetters? Unrepentant as she is, 'twould be folly.
[He argues, but not necessarily because he thinks that Kate is wrong.]
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... True. ( She inhales sharply. The thought of cutting off the kind of power even one of the gods offers them grates immensely, but Kate can't deny that Henry is right - keeping Delight captured and here could cost them more of the gods' resources in the long run. ) No risk of rescue or escape if she's dead.
( She can't start thinking about this as a moral judgement, because who is she to judge that, when the city still bears the scars from her own desperate attempt all that time ago? But more to the point, she can't think that way because her emotions scream kill her for betraying her family rather than anything else. )
Might want to ask Tranquility how difficult containing her will be.
( Because that would certainly answer the question about how much of a drain an unrepentant prisoner would be on them. )
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Do you trust that they shall consent to send us home after they are saved?
[He simply assumes that when Hope is recovered, work will begin on storing the power to revive Sorrow a second time.]
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Dunno.
( Honestly. This entire trial is just another reminder that their captors don't work in the same way the people brought to Hadriel do. )
Doubt they even know what they're doing about that.
( Judging by the fact that they can't agree on what to do with one traitor, who knows what the arguments about keeping them around or sending them home is like. )