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“You preach peace while only having known its privilege.”

A hurt and outraged Andarna says this to her fellow irids in Chapter 42 after they refuse to help in the fight against venin. The irids feel that humanity seeks victory, not peace. Andarna fights back, arguing that peace requires the Aretian wardstone, which can only be fired with the help of the other irids. The irids still refuse to help and Andanra offers the above quote as a rebuke. Here, Andarna makes a profound argument in which she essentially claims the irids have had the luxury to choose pacifism, a luxury that has not been afforded to the people of the Continent. Andarna’s defense of humanity anticipates the moment in Chapter 52 when the irid Leothan arrives in Aretia to fire their wardstone. He does so because he wants Andarna to fly back with him and learn the irid ways, but he is also clearly struck by Andarna’s argument, offering some semblance of hope that the other irids may follow suit.

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