[ The silence lapses between them while he considers her words. If she moves to fill it, she might get a vague acknowledgement, but it's clear he's working through something he isn't yet saying. In the end, he decides not to say it at all: that if anything will cause the fall of these worlds, if anything will destroy the sphere as they know it, it will be the doing of those in power.
Instead, he turns his attention to one last thing that's been circling the back of his mind, but which he's put aside until now: ] Did Oliver ever tell you how he was able to breach Thorne so effortlessly? Or who he is?
[ Either Thorne isn't as powerful as they think believe they are, or Oliver is hiding something. Or both. Mysterious benefactors are low on his list of people he trusts. Something has to be in it for them, him and the other mage that came with him. ]
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Instead, he turns his attention to one last thing that's been circling the back of his mind, but which he's put aside until now: ] Did Oliver ever tell you how he was able to breach Thorne so effortlessly? Or who he is?
[ Either Thorne isn't as powerful as they think believe they are, or Oliver is hiding something. Or both. Mysterious benefactors are low on his list of people he trusts. Something has to be in it for them, him and the other mage that came with him. ]