Zandrel began to laugh when he heard that. "So you've been planning something like this for a long time, a shot to get back at me. You've been slowly eating away at my golden puppeting thread to try and get away, and yet you used it here?
"You could have saved it for later and maybe even tried to get away, but you used it on this boy? I didn't know you still had humanity in you, Kivara. I did not teach you such!
"I thought you to be cold and ruthless. And yet you used your chance of ever escaping me on this boy? I am disappointed."
Kivara smiled. "He did save my life. I owe him this much."
Zandrel looked at her in disgust. "You are a fool. Because you have not managed to save his life. He will become my slave, just like you. And then I will reshape his life as I wanted."
