The people in Nidal - are hurting.

It matters to them a lot more than any of this matters to Keltham.

Carissa's school instructor got soul-trapped and Keltham has not been asking questions about what happened to him exactly.

And that also matters to Keltham and he cannot, actually, live in denial about that, either, no matter how much it flaming resembles all of the smug, satisfied opinions that people around him politely didn't express, but that he knew they were thinking, about how maybe Keltham would just grow out of it and turn into a median dath ilani one day.

The people in Nidal - are hurting.

It matters to them a lot more than any of this matters to Keltham.  He'd be destroying a lot of their value for a little of his value, and that's not what he wants the timeless-updateless decision to be.

Carissa's school instructor got soul-trapped and Keltham has not been asking questions about what happened to him exactly.

And that also matters to Keltham and he cannot, actually, live in denial about that, either, no matter how much it flaming resembles all of the smug, satisfied opinions that people around him politely didn't express, but that he knew they were thinking, about how maybe Keltham would just grow out of it and turn into a median dath ilani one day.

The people in Nidal - are hurting.

It matters to them a lot more than any of this matters to Keltham.  

Carissa's school instructor got soul-trapped and Keltham has not been asking questions about what happened to him exactly.

And that also matters to Keltham and he cannot, actually, live in denial about that, either, no matter how much it flaming resembles all of the smug, satisfied opinions that people around him politely didn't express, but that he knew they were thinking, about how maybe Keltham would just grow out of it and turn into a median dath ilani one day.

It may not even be the Lawful answer.  He'd be destroying a lot of their value for a little of his value, and that's not what he'd have wanted the timeless-updateless decision to be.

The people in Nidal - are hurting.

It matters to them a lot more than any of this matters to Keltham.  

Carissa's school instructor got soul-trapped and Keltham has not been asking questions about what happened to him exactly.

And that also matters to Keltham and he cannot, actually, live in denial about that, either, no matter how much it flaming resembles all of the smug, satisfied opinions that people around him politely didn't express, but that he knew they were thinking, about how maybe Keltham would just grow out of it and turn into a median dath ilani one day.

It may not even be the Lawful answer.  He'd be destroying a lot of their value for a little of his value, and that's not what he'd have wanted the timeless-updateless decision to be, of people in his position.

The people in Nidal - are hurting.

It matters to them a lot more than any of this matters to Keltham.  

Carissa's school instructor got soul-trapped and Keltham has not been asking questions about what happened to him exactly.

And that also matters to Keltham and he cannot, actually, live in denial about that, either, no matter how much it flaming resembles all of the smug, satisfied opinions that people around him politely didn't express, but that he knew they were thinking, about how maybe Keltham would just grow out of it and turn into a median dath ilani one day.

It may not even be the Lawful answer.  He'd be destroying a lot of their value for a little of his value, and that's not what he'd have wanted the timeless/updateless decision to be, of people in his position.