"I think you would manage well," Jigano said, with a smile of encouragement for his sometimes-timid friend. Certainly Sam would manage better now than he would have two seasons ago, even. "Though you have friends here who would miss you terribly," he added in a gentler voice. "But if you chose to explore beyond the barrier someday... it would be very much like being an Outlander, I think." To go someplace where no one knew him, and he knew no one, where he had only himself to rely on - his own strengths, his own wits - and he could count on no one to help him if he got into trouble... it was a daunting life and not one that would suit most people. But perhaps if Sam went in company with Remi once they patched things up it would be alright. They could both be naive, but Remi had physical strength and magic to get them out of difficulties and Sam might serve to keep the hybrid boy focused more on their mutual well-being.
His own reminiscence was bittersweet with memories he had shared with only a few in this new world, but they led to worries for the future, and he hadn't realized how he had let his emotions slip from his usual control until Sam spoke up about 'not all of us' which... did seem to indicate that he thought it would hurt 'some of us.' "The difference between a cage and a house is in which side of the door the lock is on," he agreed dryly. "But a cage can be less frightening than an unknown world, if that's what you're used to. I'm more worried about what will happen when the barrier comes down... and after. It was made to contain the Voice, and neither Ludo nor Safrin seems happy about her being free." At least, according to Phoebe. "I still don't know whether the old gods are right to fear her as they do, or what really happened three hundred years ago, though. And they're all a bit deliberately vague about it... which makes it even harder to determine the truth. And the course of action we should be considering for the future."
His own reminiscence was bittersweet with memories he had shared with only a few in this new world, but they led to worries for the future, and he hadn't realized how he had let his emotions slip from his usual control until Sam spoke up about 'not all of us' which... did seem to indicate that he thought it would hurt 'some of us.' "The difference between a cage and a house is in which side of the door the lock is on," he agreed dryly. "But a cage can be less frightening than an unknown world, if that's what you're used to. I'm more worried about what will happen when the barrier comes down... and after. It was made to contain the Voice, and neither Ludo nor Safrin seems happy about her being free." At least, according to Phoebe. "I still don't know whether the old gods are right to fear her as they do, or what really happened three hundred years ago, though. And they're all a bit deliberately vague about it... which makes it even harder to determine the truth. And the course of action we should be considering for the future."
