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So, this was shock. It seemed terribly inconvenient that the brain’s reaction to being placed in mortal jeopardy was to become much stupider.
“It’s hard to hire good help.” “When you keep setting them on fire?” “Perhaps I should reconsider some of my employment policies,” he admitted.
Had the result been an accident, or the goal? He would have cheerfully murdered someone for some less cryptic notes.
“You kidnapped me and locked me in a dungeon.” “It’s not so much a dungeon as just a really dark room.”
His life was a flaming disaster, and he’d just been attacked by demon squid.
Maybe little girls had something to hide. He thought of small girls armed with fireballs and wondered if it would make for a safer or more terrifying world.
He was a coward, there was no way around it, and he was pretty sure he could live with that. Fundamentally brave people didn’t become Dark Wizards.
“So who’s the real Valevna, then?” “Who’s the real anyone? When does who you’re pretending to be stop being a pretense and turns into who you really are?”
The look Valevna threw him suggested that she was less convinced that Gav was a simple idiot, and more suspicious that his idiocy was a great deal more complicated.
