“You’re right,” I continued. “I am broken in a lot of ways. I suppose I see the likes of Cassidy leeching off of their birthright like a breastfed parasite, and I dread becoming like that, too. If I can make a difference, then why shouldn’t I? But more than just that, I wish to make my father proud. To live up to the name of White-Hawk and stand alongside him at Mount Morniar. Even if it doesn’t happen with the akar defence, it most certainly will once I help Ievarus slay the Evil.”
