Kade smiles again, feeling a misplaced sense of the same pride he gets when any student has a breakthrough about their Worlds. "Very well-put," he says. "I find that people--beings--who want you to fulfill a specific purpose according to their specific plans and images like to think they're doing you great favors at every turn, and they get real nasty if you deviate from that and start making choices for yourself." He pauses. "I'm sorry you've been confronted with a you who didn't get to try a different path."