DAMON’S POV “You guys make me sound so cruel. Why are you doing that?’I asked the elders while Alyssa looked like she was just about ready to rip my head off. I found it a little bit amusing that she was already behaving like this before, even hearing everything I had to say. She was probably going to have a heart attack by the time this meeting was over, but what wasn’t going to be said was that I hadn’t been fair to her. What everyone else thought about this didn’t matter; what mattered was what I was doing, and if I felt like I was right, no one was going to convince me otherwise. “I am not that unfair. Of course, it would be so much easier for me to just reject Alyssa and say that I choose Arianna, but i-“ “Why exactly do you think Arianna is a better candidate?” Elder Luca asked me

