Yeah. Same. Absolutely the same. The magician that I know better than any other - I can tell that at his core, he's a decent person. He's brave, and really clever, and he genuinely wants what's best for people. He's trying really hard to be good. But everything for him has always been twisted around to being strong, and ruthless, and cruel, and never allowing the least bit of weakness and he was always taught that kindness was weakness. So he's fighting hard to be good, but it's such a difficult battle. And it just leaves me to wonder...My people have been ground down under the magicians' heel for hundreds of years. How many of them have only been treating us like this because no one ever showed them any alternative? Because they were surrounded by paranoia and hostility and just were dragged down into it? How many of them started out good but had that goodness choked off?
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