Choosing Their Strategy

The others quickly followed her inside, leaving only Alex and David outside, the latter looking at Alex with a grateful look.

"You know you'll have to use as much of your power as you can if you want to keep casualties from happening, right?" David asked.

Alex served him with a knowing look.

"I'm aware. I would have preferred not to, but I don't really have a choice. Too much is at stake for me to keep hiding my full power from them. I guess I'll just have to cross my fingers and hope they are trustworthy…"

David chortled, before passing through the dungeon entrance wordlessly.

Alex stared at it for a moment, his mind imagining scenarios where the people present betrayed him, and his mind went back to the dream he had months ago. He shivered, imagining all his friends lying dead in a pool of blood at his feet, and shook the image away from his mind.