He should pack his bag, and see himself gone — but there were a dozen places that Isaac might have run upon leaving Riftwatch; and cleverer places to return. It wasn't logic that chose Val Revin, and it wasn't reason that drew him back to Kirkwall. Despite all efforts, his head's seldom the one in charge.
(He still recalls the hunted look of her in dreams. If she wielded that debt now he'd balk, and she hasn't; and maybe that's what tips it.)
"There are no guarantees," She knows. He isn't always sure that Strange does: Rifters often consider magic a cure-all. Isaac is very good at this, and he has limits. "I've lost men to infection before."
Blood poisoning is a different matter between battlefield triage, and a stocked infirmary. Even so,
"I don't intend to frighten, but if this is what you need to — sever yourself, from that woman," Impossible as cutting out one's shadow. "See to it that her affairs are in order. I rather think she's earned it."
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He should pack his bag, and see himself gone — but there were a dozen places that Isaac might have run upon leaving Riftwatch; and cleverer places to return. It wasn't logic that chose Val Revin, and it wasn't reason that drew him back to Kirkwall. Despite all efforts, his head's seldom the one in charge.
(He still recalls the hunted look of her in dreams. If she wielded that debt now he'd balk, and she hasn't; and maybe that's what tips it.)
"There are no guarantees," She knows. He isn't always sure that Strange does: Rifters often consider magic a cure-all. Isaac is very good at this, and he has limits. "I've lost men to infection before."
Blood poisoning is a different matter between battlefield triage, and a stocked infirmary. Even so,
"I don't intend to frighten, but if this is what you need to — sever yourself, from that woman," Impossible as cutting out one's shadow. "See to it that her affairs are in order. I rather think she's earned it."