“My mother died in the rebellion eleven years ago. She was shot by one of your brothers. Died from the iron bullets your brotherhood smuggled into Faerwyvae.” “How?” he asks, tone neutral. “Was she a soldier? Or a bystander?”
Does that even matter? No, it doesn’t. The point is she died because of your church. Admitting she’s a soldier is just saying that that was an expected outcome of war.
