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"Your job was to care for them, not to love them." Vi's rumbling tone thundered across a sky seemingly clear of clouds, and he turned eyes as dark and deep as the warmest night on his herald. "And it is not your place to decide what I may or may not have known. You think I cast you into that place without knowledge of the cost?" Because Safrin was not the only one who had suffered, not the only one who had longed for better times. But life went on. Vi knew that well."She should not have been permitted to gather anything. How could she, contained as she was? You ought to have intervened. Your sole purpose was to keep those within the barrier safe - to make them part of that quest to keep the Core contained." His voice lowered, cosmic in its disappointment.
"And now she is free, and what have you to show for it? A couple of stars and regrets?"
