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[lefthandedgenius]

Who: Lydia, Gale, and whoever wants to come a-callin'!
What: Lydia and Gale have to work in the stables for a week.
When: 2/9 - 2/15
Where: The Stables
Why: Because they broke curfew, that's why.

It's only a few hours of the day, but they're long enough for Lydia to generally feel tired and gross afterward. She does her best, and she does it without complaint, but after a while she does start to get weary of her hair smelling like pegasus dung from muckign out stables and her shoulder arching from holding grain bags and hauling hay and water.

She's happiest and makes the best of it when she's grooming the pegasi, spending time talking to them or humming a tune under her breath as she runs the brush and comb over their hides and gently preens and inspects wings for broken feathers.

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[creepyfreezone]

Sky listens to her explanation, considers a moment, and speaks. "Then societal standards are flawed."

Mechanically speaking, if all parts function properly, the whole will function properly. But if even a small portion of the parts malfunction, the whole malfunctions, regardless of he functional optimal parts. If society functions similarly, enough unethical people will taint the morality of a whole. "You did the right thing, society states you were wrong. Therefore society is wrong, because what you did was right."

[lefthandedgenius]

"Societal standards are often flawed. But they also evolve and adapt, and tend to progressively improve." Lydia notes. "Maybe what Gale and I did will mean that Chiron and Mr. D review the procedure for when we need to go help demigods so we can react more quickly. You never know." A faint grin. "Either way, Gale and I are still stuck mucking the stables for a week."

[creepyfreezone]

"I would hope." Sky struggled with her paper and pen for a little while. Then finally sighed, and put it away. Her sigh was oddly similar to how Leo sounds when really frustrated. "It isn't right to punish people for doing the right thing."

"You're a good friend, to help Gale with this."

[lefthandedgenius]

Lydia smiles at that, looking over her shoulder toward further in the stable, where presumably the young man in question is working. "I hope he thinks so too."

She nods her head. "Fairness is another abstract concept that's harder to apply in reality."

[creepyfreezone]

"It seems really easy to apply to me. Don't punish people for doing the right thing, punish people for doing things that are... unethical." Sky sees all problems in this easy black and white. Yes and no. Nothing broken down to it's smallest parts is too enormous to solve.

"The wolves that attacked our camp needed to be punished, so did the people that stole my sister's dragons," and one of Sky's hammers, but she could always build a new one. It was just... dangerous, if anyone could use it. She made sure it was a very effective weapon.

[lefthandedgenius]

"But..." Lydia holds up a hand, "According to those wolves, the one who helped us is the one who deserves to be punished for going against them. And some people think it should Derek should be punished just for being a werewolf, regardless of the fact that he's also a Roman and helped the camp. Twisty, yeah?"

At the mention of Dany's dragons, Lydia's expression grows briefly dark. "Took my books, too. But the dragons, they need to be brought home to their mama. That was a big mistake, taking them."

[creepyfreezone]

Sky stops and thinks about it for a moment, "Did he do anything wrong?" From what she understands the werewolf in the Roman Legion hasn't attacked anyone in camp or hurt anyone, and he has been here long enough he could try. Ignoring what he is, and what the other werewolves did, he's been a good person.

"One of my hammers was taken. If anyone can lift it that could be very bad." Sky wishes she could do something, but Tony was working very hard on her arm, and without something that works... she's not ready to fight.

[lefthandedgenius]

Well, from Lycaon's wolves' perspective, he did." Lydia points out.

[creepyfreezone]

"But they didn't just attack him, they attacked anyone, and without any attempt at discussion. They decided that what they were doing was so right nobody in camp mattered." Sky responded, from what she saw, the wolves did not want to talk, they weren't interested in anything but what they wanted. and what they wanted hurt people, so they were wrong.

"He hasn't done anything to be a danger to this camp. And if all they are looking for are campers that are less human than they are..." Sky was, well, far from human herself. Further, even, as she wasn't born, she wasn't turned into this, she has simply always been this. "I don't see why anyone in camp is right to attack him, until he does something bad."

[lefthandedgenius]

"Of course you're right." Lydia says, "But my point is, if you look at it from the wolves' perspective, he's done something wrong. You see how the perspective can change?"

[creepyfreezone]

She's not seeing it, "But... they were clearly wrong, from an objective point of view they were doing harm that they didn't need to do. They made no demands on the camp, nor did they open a dialog. Their actions were... self important."

"The wolf that took off my arm didn't attempt to talk it out, they just attacked Hephaistion the moment we were spotted. I imagine I was ignored because he was a more obvious threat, but there actions were not kind. So any perspective of theirs is flawed on its face. The only reason I am still functional is that mechanical dragons that have drill teeth and breathe fire are scarier than werewolves." Sky was pretty heavily damaged in that fight, so it stands to reason she has trouble envisioning a point of view were the werewolves aren't evil and just wanted to kill a lot of people.