"Someone more credible than I am right now," he said wryly.
He was lucky, he thought, to be surrounded by so many people who would do so much for him. He'd wasted the work they did for him, taking a chance on that tome. If he'd only let the disease take its course...
But that would have been too much of a burden for Lissa; he had a chance now to better prepare her for what he was slowly beginning to see as inevitable.
"I had no intention of harming Princess Azura," he said, just in case that needed clarification. She was probably trying to help him, using her abilities to try and purge the tome's magic from his body.
Was it safe to tell his friends that? Or would it make the tome -- make him -- want to attack them?
"You might have to go as me..."
But he also wanted them both to stay at his side; it was easier not to fall under the spell if he could focus on the people who mattered to him.
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"Someone more credible than I am right now," he said wryly.
He was lucky, he thought, to be surrounded by so many people who would do so much for him. He'd wasted the work they did for him, taking a chance on that tome. If he'd only let the disease take its course...
But that would have been too much of a burden for Lissa; he had a chance now to better prepare her for what he was slowly beginning to see as inevitable.
"I had no intention of harming Princess Azura," he said, just in case that needed clarification. She was probably trying to help him, using her abilities to try and purge the tome's magic from his body.
Was it safe to tell his friends that? Or would it make the tome -- make him -- want to attack them?
"You might have to go as me..."
But he also wanted them both to stay at his side; it was easier not to fall under the spell if he could focus on the people who mattered to him.