[In some ways, a message like this may have been primed to enrage Estinien, as strained as he already is. Yet, as he reads it, his own lived experience tells him that it's not actually bad to question these kinds of elemental forces and what they represent. At least as it's phrased here, Dextera's worries don't seem unreasonable.]

Any elemental force brought about in excess is harmful.

[He's facing the consequences of that right now, after all. Whatever that Innocence creature was, it was too much, and the balance of his aether has been thrown off in a way he still isn't sure is recoverable.]

Yet, I feel we arrived at our conclusions despite manipulation rather than because of it. The Regent did their best to force our decisions, to enslave us to their side, and yet we overcame. I care not for the Pleroma as more than a means to the end... and my end is unchanging. I would not see my home sacrificed for someone else's ambition.