"If I stay now I will not be able to leave later." He knows what that murmuring means, the glances, the hope. Political plotting, mentions of faith. of needing a leader. He'd thought nothing of scouting ahead and now? now he sees it for what it was. A ploy to make him indispensable. To make him important. "Either I leave tomorrow at dusk or I am shackled to this Inquisition until it kills me."

And it would. He has no doubt of that.