Just because something could be done didn’t make doing so right. Sometimes the opposite was true—not doing something that could be done was what made it right. But she’d gotten so wrapped up in the need to win, to end the war, to fulfill her duty, that she’d failed to weigh the cost of her actions against her very soul. She understood now that how the battle was won was equally as important as the winning itself. Losing herself along the way would’ve made the victory a defeat. She needed to maintain a good heart, not just to win at any cost.

