If Elena was a hero, if what she did is heroism, then that's just too bad. Let them call me a traitor and a coward. Because I, Yaren Tigris, coward, traitor and renegade, state that we should not kill each other. I state that we ought to live. Live in such a way that we don't, later, have to ask anyone for forgiveness. The Heroic Elena... She had to ask. Forgive me, she begged, forgive me. To hell with that! It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.

Blood of Elves