"Theft is not in question. Murder is murder, no matter who commits it against whom. But, as you so wisely put it, circumstances do and should play part. Some of you are so quick to jump to Eshai's murder and the consequences of that. She was the emperor, so of course that judgement was biased. That circumstance dictated placing a higher value on her life than if another kedan had been murdered. Do you plan to place bias on kedan murders as well? Or would the punishment for a kedan murdering a spokesperson be the same as for one who murdered their neighbor? Is execution even on the table for kedan or is that just reserved for Foreigners and Cultists?"

Equality was a foolish, human sentiment, but Valdis had to make the argument. Besides, if the Kedan thought that the foreigners would let something like execution and banishment happen as a second or third consequence, they were sorely mistaken.