[ In the end, he will not budge from the idea — he was dragged into the fight between Liem and Gen without wanting to be, and he will finish it to ( hopefully ) ensure they ( mostly Gen ) understand never to involve him in their squabbles again. It is his son who is on the line, which means all else falls to the wayside. There is no past or future for him, no Meridian nor Zenith, if he does not have his child; without Anubis, he would readily and wholly align with Silco, and seek to destroy everything. Including the future, to bring all to a halting, screaming end.
With his hand upon each of them, he feels the way they move. Hears the way they react to what he is calling for them to be prepared to to — Hayame with sound acceptance, familiar with the ruthlessness of war, and Dimitri with his halting goodness, familiar and refuting the need to harm innocents. It is why he touches Hayame again, fingers to her wrist as she produces the Shard that she has claimed as hostage of her own. There is pride in the way he thumbs against her pulse, his expression stern but eyes locked upon her own, looking upon her face without mercy. Good, he thinks, approving of her actions.
Dimitri, though. ] They are people who will get to inherit their new world, while scores of innocents Meridian seek to save will be abandoned. Why is their form of innocent better than those we seek to save? Their mere existence condemns all those Meridian bears as lesser-than-deserving. Their innocence is only preserved as long as Meridian wins.
Should Meridian not do all that we can, then, to win?
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With his hand upon each of them, he feels the way they move. Hears the way they react to what he is calling for them to be prepared to to — Hayame with sound acceptance, familiar with the ruthlessness of war, and Dimitri with his halting goodness, familiar and refuting the need to harm innocents. It is why he touches Hayame again, fingers to her wrist as she produces the Shard that she has claimed as hostage of her own. There is pride in the way he thumbs against her pulse, his expression stern but eyes locked upon her own, looking upon her face without mercy. Good, he thinks, approving of her actions.
Dimitri, though. ] They are people who will get to inherit their new world, while scores of innocents Meridian seek to save will be abandoned. Why is their form of innocent better than those we seek to save? Their mere existence condemns all those Meridian bears as lesser-than-deserving. Their innocence is only preserved as long as Meridian wins.
Should Meridian not do all that we can, then, to win?