If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better

But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.

If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.

He made one mistake and now it's costing him his life. A lot of people get a second chance. I think he deserves a second chance.

People have a better chance of listening when they feel they are being heard.

Anyone deserves a chance to live, whoever and what they do. Without her or him existing, there will be a big difference in the world.