[ As Holland advances, Kell draws back a step. He's left quiet for a moment. Of course he knew Holland had tried to take the throne and failed, but he assumed it came from ambition, not from any desire to save his home.
It was perhaps unfair of him. But it was also rooted in his own experience. He had never been asked to save Red London (no, all he'd never done was bring the stone to it, making it undeniably worse), and he didn't see it as his burden. That belonged to the king and queen and one day Rhy...
Well, maybe he had made Red London his burden in some sense after all.
Regardless, it wasn't what he expected of Holland. Sometimes Kell felt like he belonged to nowhere at all, as an Antari. But it's clear now that Holland does not quite feel the same. ]
No.
[ he manages finally ]
No, you don't understand. You can't control that magic. It finds a way out. It takes over people and corrupts them.
[ And that's why, of course, he assumed nothing good would happen to Holland now. And it was all his fault. ]
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It was perhaps unfair of him. But it was also rooted in his own experience. He had never been asked to save Red London (no, all he'd never done was bring the stone to it, making it undeniably worse), and he didn't see it as his burden. That belonged to the king and queen and one day Rhy...
Well, maybe he had made Red London his burden in some sense after all.
Regardless, it wasn't what he expected of Holland. Sometimes Kell felt like he belonged to nowhere at all, as an Antari. But it's clear now that Holland does not quite feel the same. ]
No.
[ he manages finally ]
No, you don't understand. You can't control that magic. It finds a way out. It takes over people and corrupts them.
[ And that's why, of course, he assumed nothing good would happen to Holland now. And it was all his fault. ]