“Yes, it's my thought.” For some people, to understand something is to give it power; so many arguments that exist because of this inability to separate understanding from acceptance. To understand why something happens isn't necessarily to condone or to conform to it--

Benevenuta is a historian, after all. Of course she has opinions on such a closely related subject.

“But,” lighter, “it is a different yearning entirely that brings one here.” Probably.