I built it because my mother believed my life was only made for servitude and gentle labor. She wished me to be a body-servant to a high ranked official; when I was inducted into the house guard, she was nearly beside herself for the fact of the training. This was something I could do with my own hands, something that I could do, with my own will.

[ Alain gives a trade. He speaks truths he has never told another soul, Man, Mer, or Dov. ]

It was not the fact of foolishness that I wished you to think on.