( Emilia cants her head to the side, a slight thing. She can't quite tell if this line of questioning is a trap or naivety, but she carefully chooses to enter the conversation in good faith until proven otherwise, having discerned he is from their group and not Alem.

Her capacity for brutality is very real, but it is not senseless or without purpose. She'll be feared by those she deems enemy and not those she seeks to protect, much less those who only wish to protect themselves. He is right to worry.

When she speaks again, it is direct but not unkind. )

We find ourselves in a world at constant threat of being consumed by the undead, with unscrupulous figures who will weaponise the war for their own ends. There are those within our group who will engage with its violence as they believe necessary, albeit not exclusively so.

( Irenia is a key example of this, perhaps. It would have been easier to kill her, and she was freed instead. )

If you are asking me to point fingers, I will do no such thing without fair reason. Haiva is my responsibility.