"It was," Erin says, frankly. "If you measure from my first attack I was in that profession from the ages of seventeen to forty two. I could quibble about the details but that's all it would be, quibbling. I attacked my fellows and the innocent alike, was paid for my work, and employed as a mercenary besides, leading a crew as wretched and dangerous as I was. A year and a half before boarding this ship I attacked a man who bested me, and gave me the chance to be something different. I took that chance."
Erin pushes her plate to the side with a sigh. "...I didn't get into that profession freely, Dedue. Failure to comply would have meant a return to bondage, to torture and torment at the hands of my master. But I certainly made the situation much worse than that. Even if I hadn't, if I'd only attacked those I was ordered to, I destroyed their lives and delivered them to a fate as bad as my own. There's no excuse for that."
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Date: 2022-11-28 08:05 pm (UTC)Erin pushes her plate to the side with a sigh. "...I didn't get into that profession freely, Dedue. Failure to comply would have meant a return to bondage, to torture and torment at the hands of my master. But I certainly made the situation much worse than that. Even if I hadn't, if I'd only attacked those I was ordered to, I destroyed their lives and delivered them to a fate as bad as my own. There's no excuse for that."