“She’s playing you, child,” Execarne warned him. “Is she?” the boy said, quietly. “I’ve saved her life twice, on Helbride and at the Elided Keep. She saved mine, too, on Cheetah. And I am sure that I am the closest thing she has to a friend. We are bound together.” “That’s how she lies to people.” “No,” Iraji whispered. “It’s not a lie. No matter how much you both want it to be true, you and her … you’re wrong.”
