I’m kinda surprised none party members realized the reason Bolaire had that “outburst” was because he just learned Thjazi planned to use him in the ritual to connect with the halfing afterlife, something which would most definitely kill him.
Like the man who treated him with complete disdain, blackmailed into doing his smuggling, and referred to him as “it” fully intended make him nothing more than spell component.
And then Mara said, after learning he’s one of the missing Panto masks, one of the “ploughshares” who struck down the Trickster Shaper, she’d die before letting him go in the box. And this is not reassuring at all because she’s basically saying, I’ll do anything to keep you intact BECAUSE you will eventually be used in a ritual, regardless of what you want.
He’s PISSED because everyone is acting in awe of the theater, calling it beautiful, and no one is acknowledging it is beyond miraculous it worked out and actually succeeded. The Cloak’s plan was purely experimental and the chances of it failing spectacularly were extremely high. As Bolaire points out, they were using god-killing and antique artifacts pretty haphazardly without fully thinking through the consequences; like such as releasing a sentient god-killing weapon in a massive city or attempting to bridge into a missing afterlife at a theater filled with thousands of people.
Bolaire was trying to tell them why this is extremely dangerous when the talk is that they should try this again with the halfling afterlife and everyone keeps dismissing him. He’s also saying the life he has built is over, his sister is freely running around wearing a powerful sorcerer of a Sundered House (challenge-level of a dragon mind you), and tired to outright kill him, and all of their responses to this is “Yes, and?”
Explains they shouldn’t just trust Thjazi blindly; Hal says he needs to just needs to let go of his brother.
Family is trying to murder him; Occtius just acts exasperated by.
His sister needs to be stopped and Bolaire needs to find the rest of his family, Kattigan asks “You say you lost everything when you still have family?”
He is all but begging Thimble to at least acknowledge that Thjazi treated him terrible and regarded him as just another tool to be used; Thimble just says she’s always trusted Thjazi.
So what can he do? Well, fall back on to old programming, the only thing he was created to do.
I belong to you. I am your weapon. What would you have me do?
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