Leonel had done a great deal of things he hadn't wanted to, purely for the sake of survival.
He had his wife participate in the Gathering of Kingdoms alone. He had lost the Gathering of Minds on purpose. He lost against the Spirituals on purpose, and had even been forced to help the Spirituals out of their predicament afterward.
The first he had done for the sake of hiding the true extent of his talent. The second he had done to pitch the Owlans into a despair of their own causing. The third he had done so that he could face off against the Nomads and stop Somnus' sisters' plans… and the last he had done to deal a final blow to her.
Each one of these things were matters he hadn't wanted to do, and that last one especially left the most sour taste in mouth because it was also the one that had happened the most recent, and it was also the one that had enraged him the most.
