[ it had been like so, that kaveh had posed alhaitham two questions, and alhaitham had only answered the one he had thought he could get away with. that was alhaitham. kaveh has little understanding into this young woman before her. he has not journeyed with her, has not seen the self-same sights as her, been through her grief. but kaveh thinks - we all make choices.

perhaps she will answer both, though, in time. kaveh thinks, he cannot force the issue. never. but the city will, and his heart aches for it, for the unsaid: what did they do to her? ]

Sometimes, a saviour is a beacon, isn't it? A call to arms. They needn't do anything, save for exist. ... but that isn't true, is it. Whenever a title is conferred onto a shoulder, rightly so or not, there are expectations that follow. Whether they crush someone or not never occurs to those laying those expectations down as if brick by brick.

What is it that you were supposed to have saved the faeries from?