Suspected that she wasn’t looking for a solution at all, but rather for confidence in the one she’d already come up with. “I once heard a wise woman say to a little girl that not all battles are won with fists and swords. Some are won with words and a clever head.” Zarrah smiled, and it was like seeing the woman he’d fallen in love with rising from the ashes, scarred but stronger for it. “I have a plan.”
