[SE] i'm right where you left me

Sohalia

Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow

Soh winced at Tal's continued line of questioning. She knew he was trying to be helpful, and she appreciated him immensely for it, but the truth was that she didn't yet have an answer. "I'm still figuring that part out," she admitted, a faint blush mantling her cheeks. Then she groaned. "It's tricky. I don't want to treat Abandoned differently than everyone else and single them out, but you almost have to in order to protect them." She fiddled with the last screw on her lantern. "Ideally, everyone would be treated the same for any given crime, and we wouldn't need punishments for people who targeted Abandoned, because they wouldn't exist. But we don't live in an ideal world," she finished almost bitterly, because hadn't she seen that for herself in recent months? "So I think - for most people, yes, laws should be the same and punishments should be the same. But for Dragoons... we need to find a way to identify those who might abuse their power and treat Abandoned unfairly because of it, and then we need a way to dissuade them from doing that."

Tal had a point, and that, at least, was something less messy than her current adventures with the Abandoned. "True," she said. "Well, I meet with my advisors soon to discuss it, and I think you're right - we should make sure that we are strong enough to defend ourselves and to help as needed outside of Stormbreak. We can't do that with trade alone." Boreal snorted, drawing Soh's attention, and then licked the pane of Soh's lantern, drawing a startled laugh from the Luminary. "Thank you," she said with a lopsided grin, then started cleaning the lantern properly.

Don't believe anything you say anymore
In the morn, in the morning