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In fact, now that he was thinking about it, he'd been in their position, hadn't he? More or less? When Abolish had taken the capital and planned to destroy the town of Harold. Hadn't he wanted to do something just as reckless as this?

Garovel had stopped him, of course, but they'd still ended up doing something pretty damn reckless anyway with their plan to "kidnap" the King.

In retrospect, that plan probably would've gone to absolute shit, if Lynn hadn't showed up to help him out when she did.

Agh. He was torn.

And so were the Rainlords, it seemed. Even after it was time for dinner, no agreement had been reached. Food was prepared and served, and everyone ate together in the Grand Hall while the debate just kept going. Speaker after speaker, counterargument after counterargument.

It was going to be a long evening.

After another few hours, when Hector could see that many of the participants were beginning to tire, a familiar woman stepped into the center to speak.

It was Nere Blackburn, Hector realized after a moment, making his heavy eyelids perk back up again. She hadn't said anything all night long. Her reaper, Sentsia, was hovering beside her.

"Perhaps we can arrive at a compromise," said Nere. Her voice was rather flat, lacking the passion of most of the previous speakers, but perhaps that wasn't surprising, given the late hour. "Instead of committing ourselves fully to either attacking or staying behind, we could send a team to monitor the situation in Sair and report back."

A few whispers and mutters ran through the crowd of listeners.

"We have already dispatched two other teams abroad," said Nere. "What would be the harm in sending one more?"

Hmm. It didn't sound like the worst idea in the world, Hector thought.