How the fuck was he supposed to answer that? Weren't many people in Lower City had any real choices, especially not the kids. But he had left Keeper... eventually, said he wasn't gonna do that shit no more. And okay, it hadn't been as easy as not never killing again, and honest, if there was anything he'd learned after leaving Kolkhis it was that he couldn't be trusted on his own, not and stay alive. But there was the other side, too, how he woulda done anything for Keeper, and how could he admit that to Corbie, when he hated even admitting it to himself.

"Said no eventually, didn't I?"