Mm. Some of them. But he understands what she's saying: even those locked away had been dragged by Thorne into the Horizon. They'd kept them around for a reason—if not necessarily in the belief that they could actively help, then in the belief that even their so-called mistakes were worth hanging onto for some other purpose. Fodder, maybe. Who knows?

It all feels a fucking long time ago, even if he knows it's been mere months since they fled the castle. There's so much more than a single kingdom that weighs on his mind.

"I can't help but wonder what's more troubling," he says. "How they all mean to use us now, or the day they find reason to fear us for what we are more than they believe us necessary to their cause."