[ She waits to answer Amos' question until Estinien has answered hers, and she thinks on that for a moment, looking down to the barren ground beneath her feet. She can't feel the planet here, somehow knows there's no Lifestream — but she also knows she wouldn't need her powers to understand the dearth of life under her. Did this so called Regent cause it? Who's to say. But the idea that it could have been them is so much worse than the idea that it couldn't have been them, and it's not a risk Aerith wants to take.

Turning her gaze back to Amos, Aerith lowers her arms, hands balled into fists. ]

Everyone on my planet is worth saving. When I say the people I love, that's who I mean. And it doesn't feel right to damn everyone, whether or not I know them, to a fate they didn't choose. Everyone deserves a chance to choose.

[ Two steps back, closer to Estinien. ]

And if you really did capture his friends, if you really are holding them against their will, then that just makes you a bad guy. I know what it's like to be captured. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.