Kira<em>chirp</em>furrowed her brow, trying to follow it all, and sipped her tea when the captain was done.<br/><br/>After a moment's silence, she spoke up, "Captain, it's still strange to me the way things work in this jungle.  To me, pirates are just a roving pack of predators, neither afraid to steal a kill 'nor so stupid as to hurt the prey so much that there is no more meat.  This is natural.  Until today i thought the emperor was like that, only vastly bigger and stronger.  Now I see he is different, strange, and wrong.  Foolish like a child playing hunter, but too powerful for his mother to turn over his knee.  He is rabid.  Someone has to destroy him.<br/><br/>"You taught me once that to pirate a church was inappropriate, not because it harmed a god but because it broke rules of engagement that protected all parties.<br/><br/>"As we left that world, the emperor harmed a god."