Arialla lowered her head in the best approximation she could make of a curtsy while still on her knees. "I apologize for that. I will set revenge aside, if it pleases you."
She was surprised by Safrin's dismissal of the Loreseekers, but only a little. Jigano had said that he and Safrin did not get along. Arialla smiled a bit. "Dusty basements have never been my preferred environment."
Safrin's next words presented Arialla with a greater challenge -- more confusion, more uncertainty. Was it a binary choice? If she took Safrin's offer, would that prevent her from joining the Loreseekers, or could she do both? Not to mention ... "The souls of those she ascends? She takes their souls?"
Arialla thought of Samuel, who had seemed a perfectly kind and normal person for all of his association with the Voice and powers granted thereof. If the Voice had taken his soul ... Even if he'd consented to it, that was horrifying.
please don't take my sunshine away
