74. Pick your fights
Iris I was numb, despite knowing this was a likely scenario I had wishfully walked into this battle with the hope we could turn the odds in our favour. Greer knew one of them had to be sacrificed to end Adalfudis. If not, it would be her daughter on the throne of blood just like the prophecy. That was something she wasn’t willing to risk. She had seemed to quietly accept her fate. I didn’t want any of them to die, and like the gracious wolf she was she didn’t ask me to choose. Adalfudis’s behaviour had led us to believe that he would try to sacrifice Estelle but we couldn’t be sure. Greer had made me promise that, when we were in the position to defeat him, I wasn’t to stop her. It was one of the hardest promises I had to make because I didn’t want to keep it. Oliver was leaning on
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