"Justifications only matter to the just." 

It sounded really cool at the time, when she first spat those words out like a taunt a few months ago. But she's just murdered two of her countrymen in cold blood, for no crime but not wanting to help the Dread Empire of Praes, their ancient enemy, quash a rebellion of their own people. 

She could tell herself that they were enlisted soldiers, that they deserted from active military duty, and that as their General she was entitled to mete out whatever punishment she saw fit. She could even console herself that many in her place wouldn't have been merciful enough to grant them a quick, painless death. 

But those sound a little too much like justifications. 

Still, what else could she have done? She's hitched her cart to the Black Knight and the Legions of Praes now, like it or not, and she still believes changing the Empire from the inside is a better way to save Callow than one more doomed rebellion. She just wishes there was a way that didn't involve quite so much senseless killing.