[He says nothing until she’s done talking. It would hold water if he didn’t see how messed up it all is. Or it feels like. His gut instinct tells him this is wrong.] Even if they chose never to come back. They would have to be cleansed.

Do you hear how that sounds? No matter what anyone you come in contact has to be restricted and changed to your way. Even if that way might not serve them in their own society. Whether the water saves you or not it might not save them.

And anyone who doesn’t look like you. What if they were born that way? How fair is it to claim they’re ignorant and have to change when that’s just how they have always been? Does that make them supposedly impure? You never answered me.

What is the cleanse.