[He holds up his wrist to look at his coven mark.]
You know, I was ten when I passed my coven scout trials to become a scout. [The youngest to come down from the Knee alive.] I became the Golden Guard when I was thirteen.
[Both were ages where someone isn't old enough to have caution about possibly being tricked, especially if they were groomed into thinking the system around them was a good one.]
[He drops his arm.]
The guilds only exist because people are afraid of anyone with power and they want to control them. That was what Belos wanted all along, to control everyone on the Boiling Isles long enough to kill us all.
The guilds could just as easily be doing the same. Or trying to control people with the purpose of using them to hurt other people, like the Emperor's Coven.
I'm not letting myself get tricked into joining a coven again.
That's why I ran away and why I was trying to survive on my own. Until I could go home again - or at least back to Luz's version of the Human Realm.
The fact I got hurt doesn't change anything, I'm still not going back. I just...have to figure something out.
[He says it like he doesn't have multiple adults willing to take him in, like he's not sitting on the couch of one of them.]
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[He holds up his wrist to look at his coven mark.]
You know, I was ten when I passed my coven scout trials to become a scout. [The youngest to come down from the Knee alive.] I became the Golden Guard when I was thirteen.
[Both were ages where someone isn't old enough to have caution about possibly being tricked, especially if they were groomed into thinking the system around them was a good one.]
[He drops his arm.]
The guilds only exist because people are afraid of anyone with power and they want to control them. That was what Belos wanted all along, to control everyone on the Boiling Isles long enough to kill us all.
The guilds could just as easily be doing the same. Or trying to control people with the purpose of using them to hurt other people, like the Emperor's Coven.
I'm not letting myself get tricked into joining a coven again.
That's why I ran away and why I was trying to survive on my own. Until I could go home again - or at least back to Luz's version of the Human Realm.
The fact I got hurt doesn't change anything, I'm still not going back. I just...have to figure something out.
[He says it like he doesn't have multiple adults willing to take him in, like he's not sitting on the couch of one of them.]