Shauna smiled and kept stroking Saerwynn gently.<span style="color: #ffff00"> "religion isn't bad but a lot of people who get into places of power within a religion do so to gain power over others and then they abuse that power. history is the past, it's learning about the things that happened before we were born, the key is to learn from the mistakes they made so we don't do the same stupid shit over and over again."</span>she shook her head with a faint frown.<span style="color: #ffff00">"it isn't that simple. sometimes to be good you have to hurt people. i used to guard a wonderful woman who would starve herself if it meant feeding a hungry child. the bad people that she was trying to stop sent people to kill her and i had to kill those people to protect her. she has now built an entire city where every race is welcome to live together in peace and in her city no one ever starves, when they get sick they get medicines. if i hadn't killed people she would be dead and the people she is helping every day would be suffering... did i do wrong?"</span><br/><br/>"given your track record for getting side tracked... no." Eru nodded a little and started eating again.<span style="color: #ffa64d">"Macy... Macy... hmm."</span>she repeated the name a few more times before she nodded.<span style="color: #ffa64d">"i think i like it."</span>Relene frowned and looked up at Ras. "i have several choice replies but all of them entail clubbing you with the issues in our relationship..." she shrugged with a smirk. "i understand that, i was just poking fun at you."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>