Though I confess I haven't really tried to see if there is a way to stop him killing them as I never saw it happen until this patch, so maybe there already are options I just haven't explored.
Feel free to corect me if im wrong, but i believe that he *should* ignore them if you finish them first with non-lethal attack ... That could be the way to save their lives.
Yes, true enough, and I have knocked them out to stop them calling the guards in a playthrough before. But when Halsin killed one of the kids, he’d beaten my party for initiative so they were dead before I’d had chance to make a move.
"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"