Jigano regarded his friend with an aching heart as Sam steadfastedly defended the goddess who had caused his people to be locked in a barrier for three hundred years. "So she did tell you to force your way into Sidhe in spite of the Fae telling us to stay away. And would she still love you if you refused to do what she asked, because what she asked was wrong?" He tried gently instead. "Sam... before she took your memories you hardly spoke to her. And already she is closer to you than those who have known you longer? What about Remi?" What about me? he wanted to ask, stung and trying to remind himself that it was the Voice's influence on his friend that was causing this.
The bard didn't understand the changes in the bookmaker, but that he would so easily lose his moral compass, abandon the grace and maturity he had been developing in the wake of the difficult experiences he had made it through, and throw himself completely under the Voice's sway was terrifying in its implications. Safrin had implied to he and Amalia that the new goddess could take away the free will of her 'children' but would she even have to if she seduced them so completely that they gave it to her with such eagerness?
And wasn't that the point? So long as she could coax it from them, there would be those swayed by sweet words to join her in her plotting against those who had once imprisoned her. In spite of the joyous celebration around them Jigano felt his shoulders slumping. He raised his eyes to Sam, seeking reassurance on some familiar level. "If she asked you to change the Chronicles that you have written for the Guild," he asked quietly. "Would you do that for her, too? Regardless of the truth of it?"
The bard didn't understand the changes in the bookmaker, but that he would so easily lose his moral compass, abandon the grace and maturity he had been developing in the wake of the difficult experiences he had made it through, and throw himself completely under the Voice's sway was terrifying in its implications. Safrin had implied to he and Amalia that the new goddess could take away the free will of her 'children' but would she even have to if she seduced them so completely that they gave it to her with such eagerness?
And wasn't that the point? So long as she could coax it from them, there would be those swayed by sweet words to join her in her plotting against those who had once imprisoned her. In spite of the joyous celebration around them Jigano felt his shoulders slumping. He raised his eyes to Sam, seeking reassurance on some familiar level. "If she asked you to change the Chronicles that you have written for the Guild," he asked quietly. "Would you do that for her, too? Regardless of the truth of it?"
