There’s a jolt of surprise at that piece of information: a lurch and muscle spasm, almost displacing Gwenaëlle from his lap entirely (and once again the feline similarities are there, the exact same thing having happened to Small Yngvi on multiple occasions). His mouth forms the word what, before he doesn’t know how to finish that sentence because there’s too much to say.
Why isn’t this in every Riftwatch pamphlet, why isn’t this shouted from every street corner, why haven’t you gone out and offered to undo it for every single Tranquil still living. One more nail driven into the coffin of Chantry control over mages.
He picks through his now-scattered thoughts, trying to find the right way to say this. “That’s,” he starts, stops. “That’s a goddamn— that is a miracle.”
It’s a miracle. What the fuck, Gwenaëlle. Like finding out his girlfriend was part of implementing a way to regrow atrophied neurons, reattach severed cerebral lobes, repair horrific brain damage.
Stephen has that crinkle in his brow he gets whenever he’s puzzling over some aspect of Thedosian life and culture that he’s struggling with. “Why was she furious? Isn’t this just— an unequivocal good, it’s a cure, it’s a fix in a world where usually not everything can be fixed—”
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Why isn’t this in every Riftwatch pamphlet, why isn’t this shouted from every street corner, why haven’t you gone out and offered to undo it for every single Tranquil still living. One more nail driven into the coffin of Chantry control over mages.
He picks through his now-scattered thoughts, trying to find the right way to say this. “That’s,” he starts, stops. “That’s a goddamn— that is a miracle.”
It’s a miracle. What the fuck, Gwenaëlle. Like finding out his girlfriend was part of implementing a way to regrow atrophied neurons, reattach severed cerebral lobes, repair horrific brain damage.
Stephen has that crinkle in his brow he gets whenever he’s puzzling over some aspect of Thedosian life and culture that he’s struggling with. “Why was she furious? Isn’t this just— an unequivocal good, it’s a cure, it’s a fix in a world where usually not everything can be fixed—”