"The truth. We arrived here by chance, saved them from some evil creatures, show them the carcass of the one I killed before the pack fled, and ask if they know where it might have made its lair. Belief or disbelief... lies within their choices. I am merely trying to ensure that they can continue to make those choices."<br/><br/>He glanced at Gaven, and patted her shoulder. "That is what I believe, and what I want everyone that I help to believe. What choice is made is not truly important, though in the scheme of things eventually all choices will have to be justified and defended, but what truly matters is that they had the ability to make a choice, and that they made it."<br/><br/>He paused, and then continued the conversation mentally.<em> I don't want blind faith. Too easy to get people hurt and killed, too easy to fall into the trap of right and wrong, black and white, and to forget that sometimes there isn't a truly right or wrong choice, that each choice is a bit of both, and you are merely trying to maximize one set of prioritizes without negating whatever else you are trying to do. To forgot that the world is not just black and white, but gray, orange, purple, red, gold, maroon, saffron, and all the other colors that one can think of and some that don't even have names yet. Which is why I respect you so much. You made a choice that got you into trouble, put yourself at great risk doing so, but you chose to let other people continue to chose. It might not have been your main intention, but that was the outcome.</em><br/><br/>"And if they don't want to know, then, again, there choice, and they have to deal with the consequences of that."