Relia stared at him incredulously as the two of them came together to turn up the line. “You don’t truly wish to fight Necrovar, do you?”
“I’d be a fool not to,” he replied with a snap.
“Perhaps you’re being a fool, anyway,” she snapped back. “It’s safer here.”
“For how much longer?”
She shook her head, irritation simmering in her gaze. “This is not your war.”
“It isn’t just the war. Keriya needs me,” he said. “I can make a difference. I have valuable intelligence about the Shadow.”
“You think your ancient scrolls and dark, f*******n studies can help a doomed country?”
He smiled coldly. His fascination with Helkryvt was the worst-kept secret in the Kvlaudium Sept. “I know they can.”
The song ended, and Relia curtsied as Viran bowed. The band began a slower song, a rhullya for coupl
