[ Jayce feels bad as he can tell that Kell is getting defensive and this is about more than the obvious, and he shakes his head. ]

I'm sorry if I sounded judgmental, I know everyone has their own preference in how they live their life.

[ Jayce also lived in a cage for his own making, and he found satisfaction with that. Now that he's experienced more freedom though, he's not sure he would want to go back to that, necessarily. In fact, Jayce doesn't want to go home at all, something he's avoided talking to Viktor about on purpose. They have no way to force it, so it doesn't need to be a conversation. ]

And maybe they're just keeping everyone in the castle for now because of what happened before, and they'll give you all more freedoms soon.

[ Jayce is highly skeptical, it doesn't sound like Thorne would want to risk losing most of their Summoned again, but he doesn't know everything. Especially not in this world. He could be wrong. He hopes he is wrong, actually, he hopes that he's wrong that a war is coming, that they'll all be in very tough positions soon. He'd much rather focus on his new business and fixing Viktor. ]

I understand. You know how close Viktor and I are, I'd never go anywhere without him.

[ Kell got to see in his memories that the two of them were close as can be, and they have been in this meeting too, standing close, unified. ]