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Somewhere there is a bar. There are no bottles behind the counter of this one, but she serves drinks nonetheless. Outside her one window, stars explode.
Right now there's some enthusiastic young human men with a ball crowded around a table with cup arrangements at either end, and some kind of plant creature sitting on a stool at the counter, poking at a slab of metal.
"If you spend time and resources on hurting someone then you have less time and resources for other activities, yes?"
"Sure, but it doesn't take unlimited time or resources to hurt people who deserve it, and it doesn't take unlimited time or resources to feed the victims' families either. ...and if it was someone I cared about who'd gotten killed, I'd rather him get what he deserved than have a little money for food, anyway."
"Huh. When some psychopomps tried to kill me and the party oracle promised to track down and kill the one who had previously been arguing that I should die I mostly found that concerning. Admittedly in significant part because she's mostly an extremely merciful person."
"This is actually a really long story and I'm not sure you want all of it, but we didn't really let them go, Inevitables made us break it up. Which was probably good, everyone was calling for reinforcements and we were in a dense urban area so things could have gotten bad for bystanders fast."
Maybe it wouldn't feel wrong to just let someone go if she didn't have a choice about it? She's pretty sure she'd still be mad, just, a different kind of mad, and probably she'd partially be mad at the inevitables.
"And the inevitables were also stopping you from tracking them down later...?"
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