and the only solution was to stand and fight
A shame, really, when she should’ve had much to regret from her actions.
He watched as she seemed to summon something, all the hesitation ready and apparent, and he had to stifle the snort threatening to rally through his chest. She’d had multitudes of chances – she hadn’t taken them at the meeting, nor at the ball, and given the duress they’d all been under, the Sword hadn’t been inclined to give her any other opportunities.
And certainly, he could take the initial apologies, accept them as they were, foolishness and overwhelming stupidity, but the regrets should’ve been more than for just Erebos – for Evie, for Flora, for Sunjata, for Danta, for Hadama, and all the ridiculous charades that had unraveled from those tense and strangled moments. The rumble of his words were calm, cold, and stark. “You endangered everyone in that room.” In her invitations, in the missed proportions, in going against someone and not having any of the means to back it up, in the cowardly evasion of the mess she’d created. He wouldn’t forget Hadama’s part in that either. His head tilted, a silent study, before his eyes narrowed once more. “What were you trying to pull?”
He watched as she seemed to summon something, all the hesitation ready and apparent, and he had to stifle the snort threatening to rally through his chest. She’d had multitudes of chances – she hadn’t taken them at the meeting, nor at the ball, and given the duress they’d all been under, the Sword hadn’t been inclined to give her any other opportunities.
And certainly, he could take the initial apologies, accept them as they were, foolishness and overwhelming stupidity, but the regrets should’ve been more than for just Erebos – for Evie, for Flora, for Sunjata, for Danta, for Hadama, and all the ridiculous charades that had unraveled from those tense and strangled moments. The rumble of his words were calm, cold, and stark. “You endangered everyone in that room.” In her invitations, in the missed proportions, in going against someone and not having any of the means to back it up, in the cowardly evasion of the mess she’d created. He wouldn’t forget Hadama’s part in that either. His head tilted, a silent study, before his eyes narrowed once more. “What were you trying to pull?”
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