what if it was all possible, but nobody wanted me? To give up everything, only to learn that the fault was mine—that I wasn’t—that I couldn’t be wanted like that, not even in Tithena … I had rather stay in Ralia and never know, than leave and have that fear confirmed.” Caethari’s eyes were impossibly soft. “Of all the things you have to fear in Tithena, Velasin, being unwanted is not among them.”
