Countless hours of his life have been lost in that very argument. Round and round, no answer to be found. It was why he left, to avoid having the blood of decision on his hand.

And then his mother's city burned. Was that not on his hands?

"I know," he says. "Scions, I know. I couldn't either. I couldn't make Nolan run, or make him send you to safety. I couldn't use his power to help. And I'm not even sure what I'd have done if I could. I -- controlling people for their own good is terrible. But not acting, not leading when you can do something -- isn't that worse?"