[ Yuri falls into step beside her, careful to position himself on what he surmises is her good side. Multiple people he knows have impaired or lost vision in one eye, so he has made the habit of making sure he stations himself within easy sight, rather than making them crane their heads around to see him.

It so happens that Gwendal had one eye scarred shut, so Yuri has had this habit of surreptitiously placing himself just so for quite some time. The man had been the one person in House Rowe to treat him with any decency, so while he was always flippant toward that "old donkey", Yuri respected him. Still does, even in memory. ]

I'm obviously biased, but I agree. Even if I somehow thought my home irredeemable, I couldn't rob others of theirs just for that.

[ The universe is such a vast place, it seems. How could he decide that based on his one, all others should see oblivion? The easy alternative, he thinks, is offering others another place to go instead of their homeworlds. ]

Who can even say what they'd create, besides? We all want vastly different things.