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He thought a moment. "You'll laugh but I've never tried your Schnapps. I've heard its minty but relaxing so I'll try some....your choice of flavor."
As he waited, he addressed her questions. "Being that your husband was lost to your enemy, I can understand why you feel rage," he explained, "I suppose that would be a natural feeling. Insanity? No. Sadly, it's innocents that end up the ones who suffer in war, a war that is usually between governments. More than once I've had to go to sights of orbital bombardment to identify the dead, most of which were civilians. When I tell the families what happened to their loved ones? Well, I think you get the idea. There is too much hatred in Sirius but I'm not here to lecture on politics."
He looked at her for a moment, "Your rage is understandable but at some point, you will need to learn to control it if you can't get past it. This war will end one day and you will have to at least deal with people from Liberty. Remember, your children feed from you. Do you want them to hate? Something tells me that you don't."