[Eshal holds up one hand, palm open, something like forestalling questions and an apology all at once.] I left the Qun for a few reasons. That was one of them. [It wasn't... at the time. But now that she's seen the wider world, and how happy and gentle Mages can be when their eyes aren't sewn shut, she's retroactively added it.]

[History is a story you tell yourself.]

I've no interest in enslaving anyone that way-- that's what it is, really. It's sick.