Her words sting in multiple ways all at once, and the smile fades away. Not so bad, because that's the sort of life mages were so used to taking as the best they can get. All went wrong, his doing. It went wrong for the right reasons, but everything did go poorly at first.
The only comfort to be found is that they're currently out of captivity, and progress is being made.
"I was what one saw, and then I added a... friend. But I never found Circle life to be not so bad." Which the scars she knows about can attest to, even if she doesn't know the full story behind them. He's the only one alive who does, he's fairly certain, and Anders works to keep it that way. "I know there were better Circles. Yours sounds like it wasn't so harsh a cage, but..."
He exhales and trails off as his cat stirs in his hands, stretching and digging claws into his leggings.
"But here I've a cat, and friends who aren't all in my head." Right now, not everything is so bad.
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The only comfort to be found is that they're currently out of captivity, and progress is being made.
"I was what one saw, and then I added a... friend. But I never found Circle life to be not so bad." Which the scars she knows about can attest to, even if she doesn't know the full story behind them. He's the only one alive who does, he's fairly certain, and Anders works to keep it that way. "I know there were better Circles. Yours sounds like it wasn't so harsh a cage, but..."
He exhales and trails off as his cat stirs in his hands, stretching and digging claws into his leggings.
"But here I've a cat, and friends who aren't all in my head." Right now, not everything is so bad.