She shook her head. "I'm... not sure it is that, though...." She considered. "I mean I want him to be a better person so people keep dying, but it's not like I want to just think he's a better person but..."

She leaned back a bit.

"According to my Master, he grew up raised by a good person. And I think I can kinda understand some of what might have happened to make him so... so...."

"Evil?" Goligan supplied.

She just shrugged. "But... Something is changing. I think. I mean... the first time we met him he was attacking mostly indiscriminately, didn't seem to care who he hurt so long as he got a good fight but.... Someone like that wouldn't actually put himself at risk to help us, right?" she asked Leia. "What if... what if treating him decently... is what it takes to help him be better?"

"Then he's doomed," Goligan said, flatly. "you and he can't be in the same space five seconds without screaming at each other, and ten before you start trying to kill each other."

She sighed and let her head droop. "I know. I just.... if my Master hadn't taken me in, if my dad had been less of a good person... would I be just like Zenith now?"

"Never!" Goligan said fiercely.

Najaran looked far less sure.