With that, Killian lifted his blue eyes to meet her's.
"My goal was to protect this land that my family has lived on for so many years. I believed from the start, I was doing the right thing. Doing this all to make my family proud and to honor them. But now... after all I've been through.. what I've lost..."
He grit his teeth as he looked down at the stump that had once been his arm. He placed his hand over it, as if to touch the arm that was no longer there before that hand clenched into a fist.
"My morals have been tried and tested, broken and bruised. And I found love- in a mage of all things- and the Grand Duke... he personally took her away from me and now.. now I don't even know if I have anything left to fight for. She could be dead, or worse- and I'm out here.. floundering away," he went on, eyes welling with tears as he choked on a sob. "Lost, cold and no where near the place I used to call home."