“She needs to figure out this magic. And I swore an oath to help her do it. I believe she can, and I agree with her on the Darius point. If he’d wanted a say in what she did, he should have stuck around to voice his own opinion.” The words struck me like a blow, and if I hadn’t been able to feel how much it hurt him to speak them, I likely would have beat his fucking head in for them.
