[quote=@Rtron]
Vestec will smash that relationship apart just on principal, regardless of whether he falls for Astarte this time around. He despises the idea of chaining someone down. It'd be like putting Zephy in a box, Vulamera in a mirror, or Vakarlon in a horseshoe. The slave Hain and the Urtelem were made that way, thus they never knew how being free really was. 
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Huh. Common ground between our characters. They both hate slavery. There might yet be hope for them getting along to some extent.