My name is Sothe and I to this day think Micaiah made a mistake igniting this battle.
I love her. With all my heart.
But I cannot excuse that stupidity.
I know she loves Daein. I understand that. But attacking Ike? Doesn't she remember how he cut through King Ashnard like butter? I mean, you'd think she would have given up after the first time he almost killed her. Or the second time.
And it's clear that he didn't want to be fighting us either. All Micaiah had to say was why she was fighting the laguz alliance, and maybe then Ike would have understood; they could have humored us. We could have had small fights that wouldn't actually do any long-term damage. Or maybe we couldn't have.
I trust that Ike would never want to hurt me or Zihark or Jill or any of us really, if we had actually told him what was going on. But what I can't trust is that we could fool the blood pact.
There's no way that something so vile as a blood pact could be fooled by something as simple as a play fight. There's no way that the blood pact couldn't somehow sense the hostility, or lack thereof, between us. Just as Micaiah always would.
That's something I don't get though.
Micaiah could never see the outcomes of the battles where it mattered the most. In those fights where you don't actually want either side to suffer casualties and prefer it if the battles just stop. It was in those moments when Micaiah had no clear vision.
I don't know whether it was just a prank that her goddess played on her. I mean, I honestly wouldn't put it past Yune to do something like that. Let's just make the most risky battles the only ones where she can't tell they're bad ideas.
And that's why she probably should have learned not to go in head-first. She knew the battles were unknown and not knowable. So why would she…
Actually, perhaps it does make sense to Micaiah. Maybe the only reason it makes no sense to me is because I don't have clairvoyant powers. I mean, I give her a hard time when her powers aren't working, but I have to remember that, unlike me, she actually has powers. I don't exactly have the right to complain when they don't work.
On the other hand… she had to have known that Ike was a dangerous opponent anyway. But perhaps, she expected her powers to come to the forefront exactly when she needed them. I suppose I can't blame her for thinking that way. She's an idealist. She's not like me. Her thoughts aren't bleak and desperate. Hers are hopeful; she knows that things will happen for the better.
My name is Sothe and maybe I shouldn't think that Micaiah made a mistake in igniting this battle. From my perspective, it seemed wrong. But she's not me. And I do know that if everything she did, she waited for my go ahead for, many of our accomplishments would not have happened. I was wary of her becoming a Daein general, and even now I am grateful to her for removing the occupation.
Perhaps even this event has a silver lining that I simply cannot see.
