#when the local community leader pisses you off so much you start digging up dirt on her

[fangsandfeels]

I know that Kagha is super easy to hate, but I really feel how much Jerra hates Kagha.

She is generally NOT impressed by the Grove. Maybe there is something she doesn't know and understand about balance and shit, but for the gods' sake, this Grove fought Dark Justiciars and Shar's monsters!

They have all the power, all the positioning to fight back against goblin hordes. Moreover, they have a fucking responsibility. It's carved into every plaque around the grove.

And yet, druids walked past reminders of their duty and choose to avert their gaze, hiding away, whining, and placing blame on people tons more vulnerable than them (and yet these vulnerable people were the ones defending the Grove's gate, getting killed and learning to kill for the first time).

Pathetic.

The "we don't have a leader oh if only Halsin was there" was another lame excuse to her -- many of Grove's denizens were centuries older than her.

And they still needed a nanny to get their shit together?

Given all that, Kagha still managed to make herself a particular target for Jerra's scrutiny.

It wasn't just about the sheer audacity of a grown ass woman stating that a child led goblins to the Grove, lamenting about having to do her job.

It was also about the same smug crap Jerra heard long, long time ago (and still couldn't forget):

She knows this kind of narrative all too well. Years may have passed, but she still remembers how her family's vulnerability was exploited. How the "debt" for the food, and water, and refuge was held over her parents' heads and how they were constantly kicked down from ever leaving the status of victims, denied their dignity and turned into expendable fodder.

To people like Kagha, vulnerable people are always nothing more than a convenient target - the ones to become scapegoats for others' mistakes, the ones to be used, the ones denied their dignity.

No wonder that when the Shadow Druid reveal happened, Jerra didn't waste her breath on persuading Kagha and went straight to:

Once again, Kagha had centuries to wizen up. If she didn't learn to make better choices by the time she crossed paths with Jerra, then it's her funeral.