>Why did you help that woman, Skullgirl? Those men were not Medici.
>I had to, they were hurting her. Torturing her.... Just like....
>And by intervening you believe you saved her?
>Yes. Those men are dead. They cannot harm anyone anymore.
>Such nativity from a child. Those men, though mere thugs, had acquaintances, business partners, friends. Others who know of that woman and whatever debts she owed to them. No. By killing those men, and sparing her you may have only prolonged her suffering, allowed her to remain weak and reliant on those stronger than her, and undoubtedly made the friends of those men angry, vindictive.
>And what would you have me do? Kill her as well as them? What good would that serve?
>You would have shown her mercy those men would not have. You would have ended her suffering permanently and added another loyal soldier to your ranks.
>Is that all you can think about? One extra corpse is hardly...
>Think larger, child. One may be one, but it is one of many. An extra pair of hands and feet doing your bidding, empowering you and your goals to cleanse the city of the Medici.