Elias was about to leave, but then he paused; the questions in his heart were still many, and although he knew that he was making a mistake here by speaking, he felt it was worse to remain silent.
He had distracted himself from this issue when he spoke about the truth of the past that the Commander had promised to tell him, but he could not deny that he was still troubled by this plan to destroy the Heavenly Canopy.
Perhaps he was weak when placed against a power like the Commander and the Greater Houses, all of them holding Ascendants, but if his hands was going to be involved in the affair that could reshape the entire world, he could not just hide his head in the sands and lie to himself that the reason he had allowed himself to be used was just because he was weak.
It would have been better if he had not known the truth, but now that he did, there was no way he could walk out of this place without clearing up certain issues in his chest.
