Scar's expression changed.
The mask hid her mouth, but the cold composure that had carried her through the entire fight softened, and the woman underneath showed through. Scar's eyes glistened with the brightness of a woman who believed in what she was about to say with everything she had.
"Ever since this conflict started, he has been going from orphanage to orphanage. Tens of thousands of children, Lilith. He took them in." Her voice cracked at the edges. "Children are useless to a war effort. They can't fight. They can't work. They won't be useful for ten, even twenty years. Every single one of them is a burden on a man fighting a war against a stronger enemy, and he took them anyway."
"Is that your evil villain?" Scar asked. Her voice was raw yet steady at the same time. "A man who burdens himself with orphans while everyone else treats him like the plague?"
