[quote][b][color=#38b000]"At some point desire for justice warps into thirst for vengeance, I think."[/color][/b][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][/quote]

[b]"Justice, vengeance, atrocities. Mattered less in the end. What Lythiel had done was not just an act of murder, but the potential for a great calamity. That power of hers is unholy and has to be contained. Whether my master savored a satisfaction from it, I do not blame him."[/b]

Arcan still held to his neutral value to the mortal affairs, but understood the scale of destruction a total freedom might bring to those who misuse it. He looked at the youkai, unflinched at her defiant state, but now with a bit more respect than he could usually afford. He did not see her commentary about his situation as an insult, but rather as a not-very astute observation that showed the gaps in their views. 

[b]"Freedom, huh? How mundane,"[/b] he said, but his vibrating voice teased on something deeper. [b]"Some of our kin traded power for freedom of mortals, lucky them. When you are as old as I am and have seen everything, true freedom feels like getting lost in a forest with no direction and no meaning. I don't see my assignment as imprisonment or entombment. I said before, I can occasionally leave and see the outside world if I want to, did I? But the anchor of my very existence is always here. A heartfelt apology for your sister due to my ignorance, I understand your feelings in a way I feel when you make your poison in my gallery."[/b]