All I can do is try and convince him to take his allies and leave.” She turned her gaze back on Jason. “Which he will not. For an outworlder, he is stubbornly human. Again and again, I have watched him sacrifice for those who turned around and treated him poorly. Exploited him. And he kept doing it, even when it made his own family fear what that turned him into. That is how far he will go to secure my assistance for you, for no more reason than you need him to.”
