But of course she still dies. Why? Simple it's just bad scripting - maybe it's not finsihed yet, no way to know.
Playtesting can poke holes into stories like this all the time.
Yep. The fact that it's EA strongly incites me to not judge to strongly this sort of things.
That being said, it's a good thing to rise the question (like OP and others I've done) just in case this is something that wasn't planned to be improved but could now be improved.
My previous reaction in this thread was more focused on OP saying :
Because Arka's corpse otherwise stands as a permanent monument of failure and a reminder that she is dead because of me.
I felt bad for OP that's all x)
I'm not at all against a polishing of this type of interaction with npcs
