"A free ride into the Marches. Assurances that she won't be held by us, after."
Ideally, they'd talk her down to an outpost. Somewhere she might be useful, somewhere they might check in. It's a touch irritating, how useful the framework — but he asked her for a reason. Isaac's own improvisational scramble serves some matters better than others, chiefly the ones ending in sudden violence.
He would prefer that this didn't. Would like to think that some decisions aren't final. Define the risk: Well, I suppose I’m dead.
"I can't get her out without burning an escape route," Not the eluvians, obviously. Not for this. "If I try to move her, and she's playing me false, then we've lost an exit, and the trust of whoever I begged it off."
Venatori battlemages, however treasonous, are not beloved of their allies. Spiros, and the People, the Blades, the Sons; their lifelines are limited. There are a finite number of refugees and dissenters who will ever leave the city alive. If he does this, he's trading one for another. Potentially, one for many.
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Ideally, they'd talk her down to an outpost. Somewhere she might be useful, somewhere they might check in. It's a touch irritating, how useful the framework — but he asked her for a reason. Isaac's own improvisational scramble serves some matters better than others, chiefly the ones ending in sudden violence.
He would prefer that this didn't. Would like to think that some decisions aren't final. Define the risk: Well, I suppose I’m dead.
"I can't get her out without burning an escape route," Not the eluvians, obviously. Not for this. "If I try to move her, and she's playing me false, then we've lost an exit, and the trust of whoever I begged it off."
Venatori battlemages, however treasonous, are not beloved of their allies. Spiros, and the People, the Blades, the Sons; their lifelines are limited. There are a finite number of refugees and dissenters who will ever leave the city alive. If he does this, he's trading one for another. Potentially, one for many.