[ A frown. Trahearne knows how the law works, yes, but rarely did he ever pay much attention to it. He respected it when needed. And he knows van Zieks is a lawman, but this just rubs him the wrong way. ]

Respectfully, we should not be thinking of punishment and consequences first. We should lay out our expectations of what a member of our community should do or how one should behave before thinking of ways to reprimand those who fail to meet those expectations.

[ He may be a military leader, but he is a sylvari first and foremost. And they're...definitely not at all rigid about their systems. ]