Talk:Gaetan/@comment-84.0.247.214-20180528193927/@comment-70.68.221.255-20180830234357

Two things to consider: Gaetan was implied to be in an irrational state from wounds, fear, potion side-effects, and the Cat school's propensity for bouts of mental instability. Also whether out of malice and complicity with the attempt to cheat him or else ignorance of the plot to kill him in either case the villagers would definitely have sent soldiers and witch hunters after him for those he killed in self-defence and he would almost certainly be denied any chance to explain himself. His choices were limited, all of them bad, and he was likely not even in a state where you could say killing those villagers was a conscious choice rather than the instinctive reactions of a terrified animal until Millie's appearance shocked him out of it. And then when he was out of his fugue state his horror outweighed his need for self-preservation and he chose not to eliminate the witness. If Millie had been the first person he saw when he exited that barn rather than the last he might have had the presence of mind to weigh his options and choose the risk of pursuit.