Revenge and Regret

Today we took down Flint. It's about time we showed that son of a bitch some justice, he has been pissing me off for a while now. We had to cleave through about 50 of his guards to get to him, unwanted causalities in my opinion. He was wielding a mace that seems to adapt to the energy of whoever is wielding it, turning icey cold for me, vibrant for Obsimath, and fiery blue for Flint. Obsimath ran off with it so I will need to get it back from him to get a good look at it.
 
Once the dust had settled we beat the shit out of Flint before we let him die, something I regret now. Revenge is not the best way to achieve closure, it is in fact the worst. But that is behind us now and I can't "undo" our revenge. We did leave a few alive, there was a woman who seemed to be flints lover that I let live. I don't really know why, a past Kadvius would have ended her on the spot, but I guess I'm going soft and took pity on her. I gave her some advice and condolences and let her leave without being hindered. Something good did come out of this, we have discovered that Ruanda is in fact Ethelda's mom. It turns out Ethelda was in a shipwreck as a kid that was rigged by Flint's family to get her family out of the race. Ruanda didn't think anyone else survived so she left that life behind and ran away. I know the feeling. Ethelda is not as empathetic though; she clearly expressed frustration with her mom because of her actions. I talked with both Ethelda and Ruanda separately and tried my best to comfort them and set them up to accept each other once again but I don't know if they can ever make up for lost time. It's not like it's only been a few years, it's been over a century, so I guess I could never understand.
 
It has been a day of many trials and upsets, I have a lot to think about, Alarima guide me.