[Massacre. Yeah, that's what one could call it, couldn't it? It's hardly an ethical battle with civs getting dragged into it. Jade had seen her fair share of chaos break out like that in her war-ravaged homeland, and had hoped to put as much distance between herself and war as possible.

[Didn't work out, but hey. There was an attempt.

[As the other woman speaks, Jade gradually forces herself to sit upright into a more comfortable position while she recovers herself. She doesn't move to her feet completely yet, only she stops when she's asked a particular question.]

I dunno, maybe. And before you judge me for it, I literally got here... Shit, a few days ago? Week? So you'll have to forgive me for not jumping into a battle without knowing who is on which side and for what reasons. Plus, I've grown attached to keeping my entrails in.

[Granted, Jade has been doing plenty of judging herself. Even without her magic, she didn't live to her thirties in a country like Nehrim by throwing herself into every sight of injustice that presented itself. Fuck knows she could have, but she had her own skin to look after. This was no different, or so she had reasoned with herself during the long period she had spent in hiding. If it makes her a coward for not divining what cause she's supposed to gun for the second she crawled out of the ground, then so be it.]