Probably not. [ A pause, then certainty: ] No. I was never meant to be king. I wasn't raised for it or anything--I was just the Arl's stable boy. Maybe if Anora hadn't wanted the throne after all it would have been like that for her. Lucky for all of us that she did and Cousland liked her.

But it's sort of what I was scared of, I guess. I never could have been enough for them.