Verdant mulled for once, picking her words even as the conversation moved on to other things. Dark things, of a scale of loss that nudged the Desolation of Askaria into a stir. She... understood, in a way. The collective pain of an entire people robbed of their roots, for even originating from an entirely different continent those odd folks had accepted her as one of their own.

[b][color=#38b000]"At some point desire for justice warps into thirst for vengeance, I think."[/color][/b] A slender finger ran across the surface of the crystal, the stinging pain familiar in a rather intimate manner. Bloodthorn orchids had the same underlying principle, though much more destructive. The crystal, it was insidious in the way that no destruction would be reached. [b][color=#38b000]"But repaying an atrocity with another is just that, vengeance - calling it pennance is simply making yourself feel better about the whole thing."[/color][/b]

Someone had told her something similar, at one point. The same conversation that snapped her from her grief just long enough to take another ship, letting fate once again grasp the rein so that the past can be buried behind.

[b][color=#38b000]"And earlier you asked about purpose, yes? My purpose is freedom itself. To experience the full breadth of what the world had to offer. Questioning my drive is no different than asking how could you live imprisoned in this... tomb all this years."[/color][/b] This she stated bluntly, perhaps more than a bit annoyed at how rude the curator had come across. A hand went up to the skull, tenderly caressing it as two pairs of eyes gazed right back at the elder djinn. For creatures such as them age played a large part in determining might, but that didn't mean it'll be an entirely one-sided affairs if it come to blows. Few things were, when one or both parties had the means to strike at the soul itself. Her voice hardened, in a way alien to her behavior from the first moment she stepped into the gallery. [b][color=#38b000]"And this is Viridian, my [i]sister[/i]. Taken from this world before our baser nature could've been overcome. Insult her again and you and I will have a problem, yes?"[/color][/b]