What does he want?

I was speaking with J.W. Manus about my WIP and she asked me this question regarding my main character–

“What does he want?”

I gave her an answer, but she asked,

“What does he really want?”

I gave her another answer and she asked,

“But what does he really really want?”

And then she had to leave our chat to take care of her mini-minion.

But she left me with that hanging question, kind of like a hanging glacier or a dangling participle. It nagged at me.

What does he want?

Last night as I worked on the b...