[There's a lot being said here, and Estinien is content to let Sam speak his piece without interruption. After all, he isn't expecting to change Sam's mind. That's not what he's good at, and not what he's here for. He's asking purely because he wants to know where they stand, and maybe to make Sam aware of how this looks, if he truly wasn't aware. What Sam sees as an act of peace feels like an act of war against Estinien's need for justice.
Yet, it can't be said that Sam is wrong - Estinien is the sort of attack a hated enemy when they're helpless, and also the sort to kill those he considers aggressors with little provocation. Ambrose is a threat he can only see becoming worse with time, and if he could snuff out that power before more were harmed, he would consider it an uncomplicated victory.
Especially because he knows something that apparently Sam does not.]
No one knows how to send us back. Not Ambrose, not his King and Queen, and not his gaggle of mages. Ambrose's own sister told me as much. For the known history of Abraxas, they have never successfully sent someone from this realm to another.
[He scoffs.]
So am I to spare this beast based on knowledge he doesn't have, but may theoretically, by unlikely chance, develop in the future? I think not.
[As for the idea that murder is just bad in a universal sense, that nothing would justify executing Ambrose, he won't even consider it. He's seen the necessity for such actions time and time again - even at Himeka's hand, whom he considers much more understanding than he is.]
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Yet, it can't be said that Sam is wrong - Estinien is the sort of attack a hated enemy when they're helpless, and also the sort to kill those he considers aggressors with little provocation. Ambrose is a threat he can only see becoming worse with time, and if he could snuff out that power before more were harmed, he would consider it an uncomplicated victory.
Especially because he knows something that apparently Sam does not.]
No one knows how to send us back. Not Ambrose, not his King and Queen, and not his gaggle of mages. Ambrose's own sister told me as much. For the known history of Abraxas, they have never successfully sent someone from this realm to another.
[He scoffs.]
So am I to spare this beast based on knowledge he doesn't have, but may theoretically, by unlikely chance, develop in the future? I think not.
[As for the idea that murder is just bad in a universal sense, that nothing would justify executing Ambrose, he won't even consider it. He's seen the necessity for such actions time and time again - even at Himeka's hand, whom he considers much more understanding than he is.]