Because Yrene, ripe with power and facing down that preening Valg demon … Hope. It was hope that stood beside him, hidden and protected these years in this city, and in the years before it, spirited across the earth by the gods themselves, concealed from the forces poised to destroy her. A kernel of hope. The most dangerous of all weapons against Erawan, against the Valg’s ancient darkness. What he had been brought here to retrieve for his homeland, his people. What he had been brought here to protect. More precious than soldiers, than any weapon. Their only shot at salvation. Hope.
