They did not ask it of me. [ His voice has gone flat and weaker than it ever has been. He didn't think he could tire of this place so quickly. D'Artagnan is angry, and rightfully so, but there is nothing he can do. Not now. ] It was the only thing I knew to offer.
They would have consumed her, d'Artagnan. No matter who she is or what she did, I owed her another chance at life. And I thought I had given that to her by banishing her from France. [ She'd come back. In Macha he hadn't been sure she ever would. He knows different now, knows she will return and become the mistress of the King, that she will not have her safe life. And yet he would not go back on it. ] I can't go back on it. I won't.
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They did not ask it of me. [ His voice has gone flat and weaker than it ever has been. He didn't think he could tire of this place so quickly. D'Artagnan is angry, and rightfully so, but there is nothing he can do. Not now. ] It was the only thing I knew to offer.
They would have consumed her, d'Artagnan. No matter who she is or what she did, I owed her another chance at life. And I thought I had given that to her by banishing her from France. [ She'd come back. In Macha he hadn't been sure she ever would. He knows different now, knows she will return and become the mistress of the King, that she will not have her safe life. And yet he would not go back on it. ] I can't go back on it. I won't.