Leander shrugged, looking a bit embarrassed. "It's just something I wish someone would have told me, I guess. I joined Cepheus when I was sixteen. My father was a Vythízomai, and his father before him, and I heard your story about that group you were a part of, and I just didn’t want you to think you’d gotten trapped in Cepheus’s plans, if you didn’t want to join us at the surface. He recognizes that you’re sacrificing for the greater good." he paused, looking empathetically at Draco. "I mean, I wouldn’t want to see everything I own destroyed." 