[ It's funny, he thinks. How Thorne hadn't even bothered to fabricate trumped up charges. No mock trials, not even a semblance of an attempt to adhere to some sort of fairness that might've appeased the guests above. ]
Preferred not to lose my head. It works better attached.
[ For him, leaving hadn't been a question. He'd known from the start, even when Jaskier had insisted on trying to petition for his release, that Thorne would've never let someone like him walk free. He knows how people like Ambrose, like the Council, see him: as something to use or something to be discarded. Neither of which he wants to be a part of.
Besides. The matter of Cirilla had sealed it. Staying in a place so attuned to the Singularity's power means there's a chance they might attune to hers, too. As much as he doesn't trust the intentions of the Cities, they at least have less magic humming in the air. ]
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Preferred not to lose my head. It works better attached.
[ For him, leaving hadn't been a question. He'd known from the start, even when Jaskier had insisted on trying to petition for his release, that Thorne would've never let someone like him walk free. He knows how people like Ambrose, like the Council, see him: as something to use or something to be discarded. Neither of which he wants to be a part of.
Besides. The matter of Cirilla had sealed it. Staying in a place so attuned to the Singularity's power means there's a chance they might attune to hers, too. As much as he doesn't trust the intentions of the Cities, they at least have less magic humming in the air. ]