"Yeah. I know that ingrained horrific social practices can't just be suddenly magically fixed. That doesn't make them any less messed up," Vernique says quietly. She'll set her hand on his, but with none of the previous occasion's flirtiness, obviously. Human sacrifice is not flirting-conducive. "I like to consider myself a flexible person, Eli, but ... " A frustrated sound. "I mean, if we don't come back from all this? We were taking down Kang to stop who-knows-how-many horrific things from happening. Because that's the kind of risk people take who know they matter, but that some things matter more. I just hate having seen a death that didn't save anybody, that just inherently mattered less. Random innocent people's lives should always matter."
And then, softer. "Thanks for listening to the rant."
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