"Torture, is a cowardly tactic." said Tristan.

"And what would you define as 'cowardly'?" Gawain asked. Tristan sat in thought for a moment.

"When you kill," he began saying. "You should do it quickly and at once. Holding someone torture and killing them by such a method is being a coward."

"Yes, because, there is so much nobility in killing a person." Galahad said sarcastically, yet bitterly. He didn't like talking about killing people so lightly. Whereas to Tristan, whom he wholly disagreed with, it was a...pleasurable subject.

"What about if a person begs for mercy?" Gawain asked again to the scout.

"If they're an enemy, no mercy should be shown," replied Tristan.

"And what if they're an innocent?" sputtered Galahad crossly.

"Then,..." Tristan hesitated. "If they're an enemy as well, no mercy should be shown."

"So if the enemy is an innocent woman or a child, it's all right to kill them?!" Galahad asked with rage.

When Tristan didn't say anything at first, Galahad thought that for once, he had finally cornered Tristan. He had backed him out of a reply this time. But he became even more annoyed when Tristan calmly replied,

"...You never said what type of enemy they were. Of course, killing innocent people is never justified... but when it comes down to it, killing a man, woman or child: it's all the same. They're all people."

Gawain and Galahad were rather confused by what he had meant by this. They didn't know if he was saying killing an innocent is right or not. Their companion was hard to read, and only Tristan knew what he meant.