Chapter: 23
“What?!” I said, incredulously. “Why the hell would I try that?”
On the surface, it wasn’t a bad idea. If time were frozen I could stab them all and let the damage hit when time resumed. Unfortunately, I couldn’t move. I tried to cast and summon a flame potion, and that didn’t work either. Arta showing up was the final piece to the puzzle: this was only going on in my mind.
“I didn’t say try,” she smiled. “I said kill him.”
“Even if that were possible, which it isn’t, that’s not the plan. The plan is—“
“I know the plan,” she said with an edge in her voice that shut me right up. “Kill him.”
“You claim to have been paying attention, and yet you don’t know how stupid that sounds. It’ll be Durham all over again, only this time I’ll die.” I felt stupid standing there. I strugg
