He just smirks at me. He wants me to ask. “Why?” I grind out. He shows his teeth. “To mock you. To draw you closer and closer until I could strangle you alive, make you pay for escaping from my Collection and daring to come back. I’m not a fool. I knew the treaty was a ruse. But I like a good game, Brynja. It helps to pass the time. And what better game than toying with your Skaandan friends and you? All the sweeter when the long night is over, when I could throw your worthless corpses into the Sea of Bones.”
