“Could have had the real me fifteen years ago, you’d kept your mouth shut.” “Know that,” Gared said. “Curse myself for it every night. It’s why I was always so angry. But I wonder, maybe it was the Creator’s Plan?” “Eh?” Leesha asked. “Whole world would be different, we’d kept our promise,” Gared said. “You might never have trained with Bruna, or gone away to study in the Free Cities. Might not have brought the Deliverer back with you.” “The Warded Man is not the Deliverer, Gared,” Leesha said. “How do you know?” Gared asked. “What makes you so sure you got it all figured out? Maybe the
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