So I tell him everything. I tell him about killing Ampelio, who I always thought would be the one to rescue me. I tell him how I decided to save myself. I tell him about Blaise showing up and how much worse things were in Astrea than I realized, how many thousands of people the Kaiser had killed. I tell him how I realized that saving myself wasn’t enough.
Though the words stick in my throat, I force myself to tell him about the plan Blaise and I hatched, how I was supposed to seduce him for information and turn him against the Kaiser. I force myself to admit that I was the one who decided to kill him in order to turn the Kalovaxians against one another and start a civil war.
I expect him to balk at that, to look at me like he doesn’t know me at all, but his mind is already plotting. I ca
