There is not an option before you, ( after a pause, ) that will have no drawbacks for you or for those around you. There is not a choice that you can say of objective certainty will serve Riftwatch above the other, in and of itself, by an unbiased and methodical calculus. There will be consequences to your decision, and you do not have the ability not to choose. Inaction will be a choice, too.

It does sound to me as if you know what you would freely wish.