[Peaceful is good. Lonely is just something Cole is used to and assumes most mages are used to, locked away as they are.]

Not Iskandar, but I did meet Iskandar. He was very loud and cheerful. He had a big box and lots of herbs.

It's good to not have regrets. I don't think Justice really regretted it either. Vengeance might have but Justice wants what's right.

[He perches up on a table, legs swinging in no discernible rhythm.]

Not block. It's bright, blinding, so bright I'm deaf. It's hard to see past it. But it's not as brilliant as it was in the Herald.