...I don't want to kill people who are just doing their jobs.
[He's considered the possibility of a rescue mission, of course but even if there are half as many Company enforcers on patrol as he expects, he'd never be able to put together a team to save the prisoners slated for execution. The Resistance simply doesn't have the manpower or organization for something on that scale. The fledgling revolution is short on weapons and basic supplies, and recent arrests have left fighters demoralized. That's the real point of the Company's public executions and high-profile warrants, after all - to slowly grind the Resistance into Westerly's dusty ground.
But... when did we just start accepting show trials and public executions as things that are as natural and predictable as the black rains themselves?
[The weather forecasts are calling for intermittent rains. A hard rain might have at least been merciful, but it could take hours for the prisoners to die as a light shower of corrosive rain burns through their bodies. Ginshu barely knows the condemned men... but just letting them die seems like a betrayal of what little humanity he has left.]
I can't save those prisoners, but at the very least, I could put them out of their misery. I'm not very good with guns, though. I thought... I thought if I could get you close enough for a clean shot, we could escape into the underground. There are tunnels that only monks know about...
[He trails off, unsure. He never meant to be a revolutionary... he just wants to get back what the Company took from him.]
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...I don't want to kill people who are just doing their jobs.
[He's considered the possibility of a rescue mission, of course but even if there are half as many Company enforcers on patrol as he expects, he'd never be able to put together a team to save the prisoners slated for execution. The Resistance simply doesn't have the manpower or organization for something on that scale. The fledgling revolution is short on weapons and basic supplies, and recent arrests have left fighters demoralized. That's the real point of the Company's public executions and high-profile warrants, after all - to slowly grind the Resistance into Westerly's dusty ground.
But... when did we just start accepting show trials and public executions as things that are as natural and predictable as the black rains themselves?
[The weather forecasts are calling for intermittent rains. A hard rain might have at least been merciful, but it could take hours for the prisoners to die as a light shower of corrosive rain burns through their bodies. Ginshu barely knows the condemned men... but just letting them die seems like a betrayal of what little humanity he has left.]
I can't save those prisoners, but at the very least, I could put them out of their misery. I'm not very good with guns, though. I thought... I thought if I could get you close enough for a clean shot, we could escape into the underground. There are tunnels that only monks know about...
[He trails off, unsure. He never meant to be a revolutionary... he just wants to get back what the Company took from him.]