There is a story told on Remnant about a wise hero and a maiden trapped in a tower. Like all fairy tales, the story finishes before the true end, before the matter of living with one's decisions can interfere with the expected structure and turn what is supposed to be a shining tale of morality and heroism into the nightmare that all of you are living through, for not all distressed maidens should be rescued.

Some of them are there for a reason.