They weren’t just deserters. They were legacies who sat back and watched dozens of humans in their troop get slaughtered in a surge at the front lines. When I asked how they all survived when the humans didn’t, they made jokes about how weak humans are in comparison to ‘our kind.’ I had enough shit to handle without adding politically prejudiced assholes to the mix, so I made an example out of them. Good, Maven nods.
