'Want' might be a strong word... if only because I know that it might have disastrous implications for their lives, here.

[ Abel definitely does want to see them freed from beneath the Regent's thumb, but he is too deeply embroiled in the chaos of such politics of his own world not to understand how that might turn out for these people should they push the envelope of a world power. ]

But in order to truly grant Horos freedom from the Regent's tyranny... it is going to require hard choices be made, and Godsblood seems in a unique position to make some of those.