Naminé was already prepared with her initial rebuttal - that saving herself should hardly have been her priority when she was, by her very nature, not worth saving. Not in comparison to those she'd hurt, at least. But the words never reached her lips, in light both of what else Iroh had to say and the fact that she'd learned by now, no matter her instincts, that that self-deprecating sort of explanation tended not to go over well with people. (Kind ones, anyway.)

His hypothetical situation did give her pause. What an Owl Wolf was she had no real idea, other than what was implied by the name; going with that assumption, she considered it a moment, and then shook her head.

"If you're talking about a creature that didn't know any better... then it wouldn't be right to blame it. And... I'm sure if something like that did happen, it would have plenty of reasons to be afraid and angry at anyone, not just the people who hurt it. But-- I'm not the same. I knew what I was doing was wrong. I can't take all of the blame, but I... can't forgive myself completely, either."