‘Very well. You found a need to chain yourself, a need to enforce upon your own soul the strictures as defined by your vows. In other words, Itkovian, your vows were born of a dialogue with yourself – not with Fener. The chains are your own, as is the possession of the keys with which to unlock them when they are no longer required.’ ‘No longer required?’ ‘Aye. When all that is encompassed by living ceases to threaten your faith.’ ‘You suggest, then, that my crisis is not with my faith, but with my vows. That I have blurred the distinction.’
