[ he's quick to put his hand over Gwenaelle's, and while he hears what she has to say, this is not a topic he's dropping lightly, finishing her sentiment. ]

- Justice for all those who's lives he's stolen, enslaved, tortured. And honor for the dead.

[ she didn't have a tongue, thranduil. sometimes he feels like he needs to remind the elven king that the elves of this world and iorveth's didn't have the luxuries his own did. how much one cruel human's death can mean to all those underneath him, harmed by him, and all those who didn't live long enough to see it.

he very bitterly wants to say something about abandoning elves to die may as well be kin-slaying, but that part he keeps to himself well enough. ] But, of course, singular morality means so little when political gain is to be had.

[ that would be sarcasm. but also, it's one of the things that sickens him about most humans in war, and many elves. ]