— I did try to help you as soon as the coast was clear. They said you'd escaped in a snowstorm, no shoes, in the middle of winter. No one survives that. I thought you was dead.
— Vhagar sensed his coming first. Guardsmen walking in the battlements of the castle's mighty curtain walls clutched their spears in sudden terror when she woke with a roar that shook the very foundations of Durran's Defiance.
You dragged me here for your own ambitions. You only invited me because when Sneed takes over, he won't allow you anywhere near a surgery, and you thought that I might. Why don't you just admit that?