For what. To Kostos, the answer's shortly apparent. A pack of guards files past the wisp outside. Until now they've been a touch too easy to duck.
Inside, Isaac snaps a gesture to Marcus; look, assurances. Rank and reputation, which counts for nearly so much as a vote.
"I suppose to be appropriately ominous while we all sniff each other's –"
He talks more, when he's nervous. Someone must have counted on that. Behind Cassiopeia, a second figure unfolds from shadow, then a third; a fourth vaulting ahead in gusted Fade. The sound of a bowstring pulls taut, its location unclear. Outnumbered. Very outnumbered. Someone must have counted on this, too: That Isaac doesn’t fight alone.
She promised them information. She promised her team — supervisors, researchers. She didn’t promise them alive. The curse has barely found his lips as she turns, and slams the butt of her staff into Venatori throat.
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Inside, Isaac snaps a gesture to Marcus; look, assurances. Rank and reputation, which counts for nearly so much as a vote.
"I suppose to be appropriately ominous while we all sniff each other's –"
He talks more, when he's nervous. Someone must have counted on that. Behind Cassiopeia, a second figure unfolds from shadow, then a third; a fourth vaulting ahead in gusted Fade. The sound of a bowstring pulls taut, its location unclear. Outnumbered. Very outnumbered. Someone must have counted on this, too: That Isaac doesn’t fight alone.
She promised them information. She promised her team — supervisors, researchers. She didn’t promise them alive. The curse has barely found his lips as she turns, and slams the butt of her staff into Venatori throat.
And then all hell breaks loose.