"I can't. There's someone in Thorne who can help me control my powers. She's teaching me and she's given me her word that she won't let me become dangerous. She's one of us, though, not a Thorne mage or anything like that."
Just in case Jesper gets the wrong idea. Mat's encountered the assumption that since he resides in Thorne, he somehow supports or agrees with them. He's just in a difficult position, and tied to the lady Yennefer for now.
"It's too risky for me to go anywhere else. But I'm fine, I am just enough of a nuisance as to seem a hedonistic fool who's of minimal use. Which probably isn't very far from the truth anyway."
Besides. He has friends in Thorne he can't imagine abandoning.
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Mat doesn't have to think it over.
"I can't. There's someone in Thorne who can help me control my powers. She's teaching me and she's given me her word that she won't let me become dangerous. She's one of us, though, not a Thorne mage or anything like that."
Just in case Jesper gets the wrong idea. Mat's encountered the assumption that since he resides in Thorne, he somehow supports or agrees with them. He's just in a difficult position, and tied to the lady Yennefer for now.
"It's too risky for me to go anywhere else. But I'm fine, I am just enough of a nuisance as to seem a hedonistic fool who's of minimal use. Which probably isn't very far from the truth anyway."
Besides. He has friends in Thorne he can't imagine abandoning.