Chapter 85

“We’d have to level the spear fairly close to where the wings are. A bad pivot means you’re going to drop her onto the ground with a punctured wing. Or worse.” Nope. I was worried again. It almost seemed like this thing was more likely to kill us than Lazarus.

Or it might end the fight right then and there. Regardless, it was worth talking to Aria, or at least getting her to reconsider.

Also, I didn’t think I could live it down if I were the reason that Mithil was blasted into rubble.

“What about Roland?”

Ashe shrugged. “He’s staying neutral. He said that it isn’t his fight, even if he has more to gain if Aria wins.” Ashe looked a bit bitter. “If he joined, I wouldn’t be asking any of you for anything. This would’ve been a simple matter of numbers.”

I looked up at the ceiling and thought deeply. There was always something that rubbed me the wrong way with how Aria left that night. Logically she made the right decision. It was why I didn’t object.