I did not get to post my first chapter this week on my other blog (found here), so I am instead doing a personal blog. Now this blog represents a little bit of another story, and I want to ask your opinion on it.

In one of my stories, a man leaves his lover, and his lovers brother chases him to the boat that he's on. the boat is already in deep water, but the brother swims all the way to it, then bests the lover in a sword battle, but spares him. Now, understand that brother is angry because the man he has bested was his sisters' life. Would you have spared him? Why or why not?

Leave your answers in the comments below.