Their arrogant stubbornness, you mean. [ hawke, don't speak unkindly about the dead. especially not the dead you unwillingly slaughtered. ] Really, they wouldn't even consider another option. I can't imagine what drives anyone to be so dogmatically homicidal. [ a pause, because while she can condemn them for lashing out so swiftly, she knows that they did it out of pain and anger over what they perceived as a deep betrayal. ] I keep telling myself that if I'd only managed to get another few words out, we might have explained.

But perhaps they never would have accepted our reasons. I'm not certain they would have wanted to.