[Diarmuid didn't need to raise any objection. Even as Waver had spoken, he already knew how the other would feel about it. This was the morality and priorities of a magus, not a knight. To ask him to follow that even only for a while left a terrible taste in the lecturer's mouth, and his voice was tinged with an admission of guilt.]
I know I'm telling you to go against something important to you. God forbid I beg you to have some self-preservation, but this is what we'll need to do for now. I'd expect anyone else with real powers to be thinking similarly.
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[Diarmuid didn't need to raise any objection. Even as Waver had spoken, he already knew how the other would feel about it. This was the morality and priorities of a magus, not a knight. To ask him to follow that even only for a while left a terrible taste in the lecturer's mouth, and his voice was tinged with an admission of guilt.]
I know I'm telling you to go against something important to you. God forbid I beg you to have some self-preservation, but this is what we'll need to do for now. I'd expect anyone else with real powers to be thinking similarly.
Somehow, I'll make it up to you.