[color:#FFCC99]Which makes this whole story arc so disappointing and the main reason why I completely avoid Sazza's quest in majority of my playthroughs. Because Arka's corpse otherwise stands as a permanent monument of failure and a reminder that she is dead because of me.
I mean, it's unfortunate that you can't save her, but I never once thought "All this happened because of me, me, ME!".
She made her choices.
I fully agree with this. You can't save people from themselves. You can offer guidance, support, empathy, sympathy and so on. And maybe (hopefully), that will help. But at the end, people make their own choices.
Their mistakes are not yours
