An Extra’s POV

Is it right to take a life?

NO.

Is it right to take a life you believe to be wrong?

MAYBE.

Is it wrong to allow a life you believe to be wrong take another life?

YES.

In the endless spectrum of results, Esme chose the simplest path to arrive at her definition of morality.

"I will eliminate anyone who threatens the wellbeing of myself, those I care about, and those I consider to be worth keeping alive."

And so, when it came to the question of the two men and their daughters, Esme had her answer.

"If killing a man's daughter will save my daughter, I'll kill the daughter. If killing a man will save my daughter, I'll kill the man. And if I can kill the third party who started the twisted game, then that is what I will do."

There was no need for a moral dilemma or overcomplicating an issue that would appear simple to anyone living in a certain point of view.

"Why is that your answer?" Rey asked Esme.

"Because I can't save everyone. I have a life, and I am limited by my experiences. It's useless taking my opponent's perspective and experience into account. I am not them, and they are not me."

Rey slowly nodded.

"If I choose not to kill someone's daughter to save my own, am I so certain that the person would do the same if they were in my shoes? No… I don't think so."

In the end, humans only did things based on their perception of things.

"We don't see the world as it is, but from a contaminated lens of the self… eh?" Rey smiled as he looked at Esme.

She wasn't wrong in her analysis.

how we

expected to switch to his perspective so easily, but after seeing the ugliness of the world,

you good, does it?" He

Why doesn't it

Rey was surprised by

bad deeds already made you a bad person, unless one looked at it from the spectrum of

truly good or bad person. People could do good things for bad reasons and bad

she was willing to kill another man's daughter to save her own, or commit atrocities

good, neither was she truly

this to her, but Esme shook her head

accept that."

her eyes gleamed with nothing short

good person. I choose to follow the path that I consider good and generate

what SHE

the other side is what I would call EVIL." That was

hearing this, Rey

crimson eyes shone brightly as he observed

understood why her current perspective was the way it

Good… just

meant they followed their own path and philosophy of good… to the

not the

Rey lay in the nature

same thing that Esme would, but he did so from a

But she was different.

her own convictions! That made her

out her trauma…' Rey's thoughts trailed as he looked at

just wasn't in the way I

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objective plan on how you'll go about

question echoed in the room after several minutes of silence

was initially willing to give her time to say whatever she had to say, but after waiting for a while, Rey suspected that Esme was done with what she had to

he asked

role in defeating the Dragons. To do that, though… I'll need to