The carriage slowly passed the slope where the avalanche had struck. The Cartouches were busy rescuing their companions. Though they saw the convoy passing by, they made no further attempt to attack. Both sides went about their own business in peace.
This beautiful, pristine place had become unsettled because of their arrival, as if it had been defiled.
Revenge arose from a creature's instinct for self-preservation. It deterred future harm through retaliation. Even wolves knew to keep their distance when they saw humans rather than launch an attack. This was one of the necessary conditions for human survival.
Georgiana took the red stone from the snowflake-patterned locket. Held up to the light, it actually looked very much like Grindelwald and Dumbledore's Blood Pact.
Peace was a marriage joined on the basis of mutual consent.
When Grindelwald and Dumbledore had sworn not to harm each other, they had done so willingly. But when the Blood Pact was broken, at least one of them had no longer wished to be bound by it. It had ceased to be voluntary.
As she looked at the stone, she thought that it had been easily plucked from the "mother plant," which at least proved that it was not as "indestructible" as a Diamond.
When the Treaty of Campo Formio had been signed, the Austrians had been unwilling as well. Napoleon had smashed one of Catherine the Great's teapots onto the floor.
Georgiana put the red stone back. Once the carriage rounded a bend, that corner vanished from view, but she saw a man on horseback standing atop the mountain peak, watching her leave.
Magellan completed his circumnavigation in 1521, yet Spain and Portugal had impatiently divided the Earth in half as early as 1493. At the time, they did not even know the Earth's circumference.