'Romantic Dream'? Playing lapdog to a sorceress is his idea of romance?

We were born near the end of a war with another sorceress; it was what left us all parentless and alone. It drove us to Garden and all that came along with that.

Garden, the war, the fighting and all the blood and loss of life.

This was his romantic dream?

I was never foolish enough to think I could be a part of that, but this was beyond any thought I could have ever entertained.