I'm not saying I'm not sorry they died but people were going to die either way. It's not my place to judge who is more deserving of death, there are plenty enough gods to fight over that.

But you of all people should understand why the planet needs to be protected. That's what my job is. That's what these tattoos mean. That I fight for the planet because she cannot do it herself. It's not like the lands the people destroyed were the same as after a fire, where life can begin anew. Everything was dead, Briar. From the soil up nothing would grow, nothing would survive. There's no coming back from that. The one time that happened in my world it is a vast wasteland to this day, more than five thousand years later. That's a far greater tragedy.