"Octavia kept pretending to be simple-minded, so they wouldn't expect anything of her. But I made every effort

"Octavia kept pretending to be simple-minded, so they wouldn't expect anything of her. But I made every effort – though they didn't teach me much. What is there to teach? It's not book magic, it's innate. They made me practice with my sword more... But I did my best in everything. I studied all I could. They knew they were raising an enemy, but they thought they could keep me on a short leash. Or sell me to someone with deep pockets, so I'd become someone else's problem. But who won in the end, huh? Who is free? Who will bury them all?" The half-orc makes an obscene gesture in the north-western direction, toward Numeria.