[Wow!! But also, yeah. Flinching when he phrases it like that, even if she totally deserves it.]

Hey— It wasn't like that. You could have been threatened to stay quiet for all I know, and... I wasn't thinking like that until I saw the note, okay? I'm sorry, Varian.

[The initial reluctance didn't help, either. Sorry, bro.]

... Well, whoever sent the second letter is wrong. [She looks at her own letter again, slowly reading:] "This war isn't about good triumphing over evil. It's not even about "winning," either."

That contradicts the whole first sentence.