In the end, her written ideology, the philosophy and new morals she had preached, were all means to an end. That end could never be reached; Armiger … - Karl Schroeder

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In the end, her written ideology, the philosophy and new morals she had preached, were all means to an end. That end could never be reached; Armiger had taught her that. If so, then what mattered their disappointment, their disillusionment? They would hate her for leaving them alive, but they would be alive, and a life lived in bitterness was still better than a death colored by useless fanaticism.