“Are you presuming to give me advice?” “Consider it a tip, from one monarch to another.” Despite who walked ahead of them, behind them, Manon smiled slightly. He surprised her further by saying, “I’ve been tunneling into my power since they appeared. One wrong move from them, and I’ll blast them into nothing.” A shiver rippled down her back at the cold violence in his voice. “We need them as allies.” Everything she was to do today, tonight, was to seal such a thing. “Then let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, witchling.”
