Because when he was a prisoner, he tried to help people at no small personal risk to himself?
( a quick shake of her head: )
We need people to be curious, ( she says, firmly. ) Every year, there's some fight about how scary and dangerous it is to want to learn things and take steps to understand them— like we can protect ourselves by being ignorant. Like no one else is going to try.
( a little exhale, )
My uncle's a research healer whose work looked enough like blood magic that it'd have been safer for him not to do it. But you know, I'm not saying, he'd be doing a lot of crimes, I'm saying, he was property of the Chantry so a failure to control him would be someone's workplace fuck up and they'd take the baby and punish everyone involved.
( a gesture at the library they're in: ) This used to be a Circle. The nature of phylacteries mean if you'd been a mage here, no one would have had to torture you for your friend's location, though you'd probably have been punished for knowing it. Use the phylactery made with their blood when they were locked in here and run an escapee down at leisure.
no subject
( a quick shake of her head: )
We need people to be curious, ( she says, firmly. ) Every year, there's some fight about how scary and dangerous it is to want to learn things and take steps to understand them— like we can protect ourselves by being ignorant. Like no one else is going to try.
( a little exhale, )
My uncle's a research healer whose work looked enough like blood magic that it'd have been safer for him not to do it. But you know, I'm not saying, he'd be doing a lot of crimes, I'm saying, he was property of the Chantry so a failure to control him would be someone's workplace fuck up and they'd take the baby and punish everyone involved.
( a gesture at the library they're in: ) This used to be a Circle. The nature of phylacteries mean if you'd been a mage here, no one would have had to torture you for your friend's location, though you'd probably have been punished for knowing it. Use the phylactery made with their blood when they were locked in here and run an escapee down at leisure.