[She made the king promise. Alistair could have been king, once, but probably not with a mage's blood in his veins. Politics. It makes cold, awful sense, and makes it even worse that other people abandoned him as well. Of all the people he was handed off to, why didn't just one of them decide to put Alistair first?]
Why? [She sounds distant, but she gets it. Joking helps him cope.]
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Why? [She sounds distant, but she gets it. Joking helps him cope.]