Comment by Introvert on Introvert

Callisto also doesn't want to help them because of their treatment to Penelope. She tells him if she falls again he cant save her which he agrees to. She tells him she's scared too. She was scared and beat it up and ran away but Callisto followed and caught her. She remembers their conversation in the cave during the hunting competition and him telling her how he wanted to become emperor to destroy the empire. But she thinks maybe he really had a dream of being a solider who rules the empire like she did of being an archaeologist.

She wants him to become a perfect emperor in a safe world. She tells him that she knows that because he'll be by her side, she'll be safe from danger. But she's looking for courage and the duke wants to save the people. Callisto tells her that he's scared every time she closes her eyes she won't wake up. He finds himself counting her breath even though he knows she's awake. He keeps seeing her face falling over and over. She realizes why he was so sensitive to her fainting. He keeps remembering when she drank the poison. She tries to assure him she'll go easy this time with her magic making him laugh. She says she doesn't need to faint if she takes the potions the wizards gave her.