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(Despite the username) the man in the red tunic and some Greco-Romanstyle armor and arms doesn't come from anywhere near what a few people may recognize as the Aristan door. He looks around with interest but not new-visitor shock as he sets down a sack with a 'clunk' of cloth-covered glass.
"A hypothetical question," he says. "Hypothetical because it helps to assume, whether it's true or not, that one has a parent one adores. Please imagine that. Now imagine that he or she has gone mad. Dangerously so. People are going to die. The whole family agrees he or she would not want this to happen, but nobody can bring himself to, well, snap his or her neck or whatever's necessary."
"Could you?"
"A hypothetical question," he says. "Hypothetical because it helps to assume, whether it's true or not, that one has a parent one adores. Please imagine that. Now imagine that he or she has gone mad. Dangerously so. People are going to die. The whole family agrees he or she would not want this to happen, but nobody can bring himself to, well, snap his or her neck or whatever's necessary."
"Could you?"