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"Are you with us or would you rather risk Sofia winning?"
Pearl sat there, thinking, the cold of her now empty plate, perched on her thighs, an anchor that stopped her from drifting.
There was only one answer to that but the risks that came with it caused her to hesitate.
Despite Christopher's promise, she knew that there was an incredibly high chance of her dying, Sofia's unpredictability taken into account.
In all her life plans, dying a martyr had never been one of them and she wasn't planning on adding it to the list any time soon.
It was as easy as saying 'no' and returning to her newfound family and Everest, who would surely figure everything out and come up with a plan, but then she remembered Daphne and her people.
Innocents whose only crime was a power hungry leader and
