Then sell your services to both sides and don't take one. It's as simple as you want to make it, but you got skills and it's probably a waste of them to just punch things in some gambling arena.

[However, he understood that she was going to do whatever she wanted. He just thought that she could find a way to release the frustration of being part of this. After all, likely there was a plan for integration anyway.]

Mercenaries work for the money. They don't take a side; they go to the highest bidder.