An uncomfortable silence stretched after Argent’s pledge. It’s not that I didn’t understand him. I too wanted to do much of the same, but my energy was sapped from my very being. I had nothing left inside. “Argent,” I whispered.
He turned to me then. I still hadn’t answered his declaration, and now was not really the time. “Nicon, I can’t let them take them. You understand, right? You’d do the same for your people?”
Simon crossed his arms over his chest. “You can’t seriously be thinking of trying to take them on right now. We just barely survived that. We need to go back to the cottage and research the situation before we move further.”
“Research?” Argent snorted. “What good will that do? The longer I leave my people to the imps the more deaths that will happen.”
“And are you really ok
