That's not what I meant. [This is said a little apologetically.] What I mean is, Caedra is more Cersei than the Night King, and there's a little of Stannis's Red Witch in her too. She's willing to kill, able to kill, but she has things that interest her other than killing. The question is what interests her more than killing, and how do we keep her interested in it?
It isn't that I want to spare her life, it's that killing her isn't a helpful plan if it's the only plan, and if it's impossible.
A plan to strand her need not involve rescuing all of us. It could be something like taking her to one of the islands we found while she's in her current state, and leaving her there. The gods wouldn't be stuck with her, that's true, but she wouldn't trouble the rest of us, and if the city moves again, it might move without her.[But a few things tug at him: a plan like that seems needlessly cruel in some ways, there is no surety that Caedra would be forced to stay on whatever island they left her on, and there are clearly those who are protecting her regardless of the welfare of others, people who might only go and retrieve her.]
You know that if Valentine thinks he can handle it himself, there are measures he'll try to put an end to. He won't be happy about this conversation.
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It isn't that I want to spare her life, it's that killing her isn't a helpful plan if it's the only plan, and if it's impossible.
A plan to strand her need not involve rescuing all of us. It could be something like taking her to one of the islands we found while she's in her current state, and leaving her there. The gods wouldn't be stuck with her, that's true, but she wouldn't trouble the rest of us, and if the city moves again, it might move without her.[But a few things tug at him: a plan like that seems needlessly cruel in some ways, there is no surety that Caedra would be forced to stay on whatever island they left her on, and there are clearly those who are protecting her regardless of the welfare of others, people who might only go and retrieve her.]
You know that if Valentine thinks he can handle it himself, there are measures he'll try to put an end to. He won't be happy about this conversation.