ZoraiMilia wasn’t sure how the captain managed to get the crystals in three days—or why he seemed to think himself infinitely cleverer and more desirable because of it. Regardless, she hadn’t thought he would pull it off. No need to congratulate the man. His ego was already inflated enough. Now, on to the task of tracking down a certain black-market dealer… It was problematic, to say the least, nailing Zorai with damning evidence, let alone catching him in the act of evident wrongdoing. In fact, Milia thought it sloppy work of Zorai that Darmoil even caught him handing over aetheric crystals to the Haran in the first place. That or an uncanny stroke of luck; she hadn’t decided which. Allowing the man to roam free was an exploitative decision on the League’s part, in Milia’s professional

