“Leave? And go where?” There’s so much ground between where they are and anywhere that might treat them different. A fortnight’s travel or more to Nevarra or to the Free Marches, which means a long time trying to go unseen on the Imperial Highway or surviving in the surrounding wastes. “Go where and do what? They’ll track us wherever we go, mages are treated little better than elves in the south, and we obviously can’t go north.”

North, to Seheron? She might not be killed on sight but surely he would.