When Gen shouts, "I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT," it's because he lost it. Really, he lost it. He's been injured, insulted, is in the prison where... well... and the cell is even similar to the one he had. (Just he didn't remember his having a bed) Then he and Teleus start shouting at each other, and all this combines with EVERYTHING, and he loses it. He shouts "I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!" and everyone thinks that's the King of Attolia losing his temper. It's not. It's the Thief of Eddis. Later, his cousin Aulus says that if he'd gotten a penny for every time Gen had said that, he'd be as rich as Ornon before he lost all hi sheep. (presumably Ornon was horribly rich) And later Gen tells his Irene that he "almost had them all executed." When Gen was younger, it seems that he went around going, "I can do anything I want!", which was his right as Thief as Eddis. For that one small moment, he forgot that he was the king and yelled something entirely inappropriate for that role. Oh dear, this is WAY TOO LONG. Ulp. Sorry!
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When Gen shouts, "I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT," it's because he lost it. Really, he lost it. He's been injured, insulted, is in the prison where... well... and the cell is even similar to the one he had. (Just he didn't remember his having a bed) Then he and Teleus start shouting at each other, and all this combines with EVERYTHING, and he loses it. He shouts "I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!" and everyone thinks that's the King of Attolia losing his temper. It's not. It's the Thief of Eddis. Later, his cousin Aulus says that if he'd gotten a penny for every time Gen had said that, he'd be as rich as Ornon before he lost all hi sheep. (presumably Ornon was horribly rich) And later Gen tells his Irene that he "almost had them all executed." When Gen was younger, it seems that he went around going, "I can do anything I want!", which was his right as Thief as Eddis. For that one small moment, he forgot that he was the king and yelled something entirely inappropriate for that role. Oh dear, this is WAY TOO LONG. Ulp. Sorry!