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" Talking of lovely things, I find that yet again, Tayven is not here when I visit. Are you keeping him from me, Darris?”
Maycarpe pulled a rueful face. “You are unkind, and know very well that your visit was impromptu. How could I have forseen it?
Almorante raised an eyebrow.
Maycarpe ignored the implication. “Tayven is not here. He is in Cos.”
“I would like to speak to him and, out of deference for his experiences, have refrained from summoning him formally to Magrast, but it would gratify me if you could arrange a meeting. I will be returning to Mewt in a couple of months’ time.”
Maycarpe lifted his hands. “I will do what I can, but Hirantel is a law until himself.”
“He is a Magravandian subject,” Almorante said quietly. “I don’t want to exert my prerogative, but he must accept he cannot run from the past forever. I invested a great deal in him. No expense was spared in rescuing him from Cos.”
“I have told him that,” Maycarpe said, “but perhaps because it was actually my people who eventually unearthed him, he feels he was abandoned by the royal house. A wrong assumption, of course, but Tayven’s experiences have changed him. He is a bitter man, even dangerous in his melancholy. "
― Storm Constantine , The Crown of Silence (The Chronicles of Magravandias, #2)