"I won't," she said again. "Not until I have finished my mission."
The old wizard cackled again, nudging Aes in the ribs. "That's loyalty for you, eh?" he said. "Determined to do what MacKegan tells her, despite the odds."
Aramina said nothing from behind her steady eyes.
"The prince is not crowned yet," Eahn said. "When he is, then we will have failed."
Leahr opened his mouth to speak. "True," Skagg said, preempting Leahr’s unformed sentence. "But you were supposed to keep him from gaining Cnos Fada, which he has. If we have much more of this nonsense of you five flitting about and playing when you’re supposed to be taking care of the problem at hand, MacKegan will have to destroy the city and everyone in it.”
“It’s not like it hasn’t happened before,” Aramina said shortly.
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