This was the only part of the plan he’d regret in the After. Knowing that Tava would understand, but she didn’t know it was coming. She wasn’t prepared to watch him die again after watching him nearly do so in a throne room months ago. She’d have Drake though. At the end of this, she would have her brother. But giving his life to save his people? To keep the mortal kingdoms from being used yet again in a war that had never been about them? That choice had been easy.
