"Well, I'll be here, won't I? It's why I have these mirrors, so I can live here and apprentice there. You didn't want me staying in Troichean Beinn." So now, through this boon, he wouldn't have to. It hadn't been done for the sake of any of the Starks, but only because of a duty he now felt to the city. But he could scarcely complain that he would not be near his friends at all times.