I told her that you cannot be everything for your people. In the end you will have nothing left to give them, and then you will not be what they need.

[ He is thinking of Attolia again. He is always thinking of Attolia; she is like a draught that he cannot sleep off. ]

She said that she wasn't given that choice. But I am a thief, and I think that if you are not given something you can take it, instead. So.