[However, those were already valid points.]

"You've already abandoned the towers of Sanctuary-- unless you were just acting on impulse and didn't put your heart in it."

[The man squeezed the bridge of his nose, as if he were trying to fend off a headache.]

"There's nothing I hate more than spineless fools."

[Waver wheeled back onto the stranger, eyes flashing in fury.]

I didn't just leave because I wanted to! [He protested,] I mean, who really wants to leave a place like that when all you want to do is learn about things? But, I....I--!

[Change was hard, man! Of course a first time adventurer would second guess every step of the journey. Even if home was uncomfortable, it was still something he knew.

It was human instinct to fear the unknown, and embrace discomfort if they had never known anything else.]