When you watch everything you have tether before you, you wake up everyday always afraid of one thing… or more.
- Kruger Baldrig (The Baldrig Heir)
The Primarch watched as the Baldrig heir literally broke before him, his body shaking like a tree disturbed by a heavy wind.
The man stared at the ice forest, dread filled in his eyes. He knew well what everyone also knew, which was that if anything bad were to happen to any student, he would partly bear the responsibility for it.
But perhaps, it wasn't fear of responsibility that made the man shake terribly so; it was true fear that some terrible could go wrong by a mistake of his that could have been easily avoided.
Burden… it lowered a man's shoulder terribly low.
"Primarch…" he said, his complexion having lost all their colour. "Can we truly not enter the ice forest? Can nothing be done?"