Those strong negative feelings are all too familiar to him. Duty has enough anger to fuel the wars people fight back home, but he has goals. As much as possible, he channels it into them. He releases much of the rest in combat. Bloodletting of emotion along with beast blood. It's working for now, but he's under no illusion he's moved past it.

"Bad wounds don't heal on their own," Duty says. He looks at Kainé, affected a universe away from whatever these people did to her. She cannot move on by handling them. No point holding out for that.

"You wade into that pain and figure it out, or don't," Duty says bluntly, "Your choice." A pause. A line potentially being crossed. "It doesn't have to be alone."