"But I wonder if at least part of it wasn't about the desire to save more lives. Or at least that's what he told himself, to excuse it. That the Alamarri and their allies could go home to live their lives with some degree of autonomy, with fewer lives lost than if the siege at the gates continued. He could tell himself he was doing it for the good of his people, because his wife was a fanatic, and there had been enough death. A divorce isn't much, compared to that."
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"But I wonder if at least part of it wasn't about the desire to save more lives. Or at least that's what he told himself, to excuse it. That the Alamarri and their allies could go home to live their lives with some degree of autonomy, with fewer lives lost than if the siege at the gates continued. He could tell himself he was doing it for the good of his people, because his wife was a fanatic, and there had been enough death. A divorce isn't much, compared to that."