“You should have expected it. Or what did you think this Oath of Peace is about? It’s a commitment to the forgiving of lepers—of Kevin and Trell. As if forgiveness weren’t the one thing no leper or criminal either could ever have any use for.”
The Oath of Peace is the perfect victim framework for exploitation by psychopaths.
A mass of people who will keep on forgiving, even in the face of atrocity, rather than instantiate justice.
Mercy, without justice is weak. Justice without mercy is brittle.
Together - they become tempered steel.
So far, this story denies this basic truth.
