Not normally. [ He nods, agreeing. He'd been a favorite at the court of Eddis, and perhaps his queen had been too fond of him. Or too attached to his uses. Perhaps to queens that was much the same thing.
Eugenides wishes, very dearly, that it hadn't been enough to cause a war at all. He was incoherent for much of it, sobbing in his room about his maimed hand and maimed pride, drugged to insensibility when his doctor could manage it. Those were not happy months. It took him a very long time to realize that his country was at war. He strongly dislikes being reminded of them.
If Attolia had just killed him, instead of sending him back, broken, there wouldn't have been such a reckoning. He would have been safely dead, and that would be the end of it. ]
So. It's an ancient punishment for thieves. [ Strangely, he feels— defensive of Attolia. That she was within her right. That he had gotten caught. She hadn't offended the gods. ] And I was a thief.
[ He shrugs, as best he can, a hopelessly lopsided gesture. ]
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Eugenides wishes, very dearly, that it hadn't been enough to cause a war at all. He was incoherent for much of it, sobbing in his room about his maimed hand and maimed pride, drugged to insensibility when his doctor could manage it. Those were not happy months. It took him a very long time to realize that his country was at war. He strongly dislikes being reminded of them.
If Attolia had just killed him, instead of sending him back, broken, there wouldn't have been such a reckoning. He would have been safely dead, and that would be the end of it. ]
So. It's an ancient punishment for thieves. [ Strangely, he feels— defensive of Attolia. That she was within her right. That he had gotten caught. She hadn't offended the gods. ] And I was a thief.
[ He shrugs, as best he can, a hopelessly lopsided gesture. ]