[ben runs his hand over his face in a tired gesture, pausing at his lips. he never put great effort into knowing how the war started, but he knows the gist of it, knows that disagreements happened and ties were broken. to him, an end wasn't in the near future.]

Don't really matter what side you're on, but we got Harmony and Chaos. Caer Scima's on the other side; they're who we're fightin'. You don't gotta fight if you don't want, long as you help out some other way.