The Dark Defiles (2014)
“Archeth might have been a statue, rooted to the polished alloy floor where she’d leapt to her feet.
“You said what?” Staring balefully up at the iron-beamed ceiling now. “You’d better back that shit up, Warhelm. You’d better fucking explain to me why my father would cripple and blind one of his most powerful allies in the fight against the dwenda. Are you accusing him of treachery? Why would he commit such an act of violence against you?”
“It was not treachery, no. But we differed over ...how to end the Aldrain threat.” Near as Egar could tell, the screech-edged amiability in the demon’s voice hadn’t changed. If it had ever been pissed off about what ’Nam had supposedly done to it, the passing of a few thousand years certainly seemed to have taken the edge off. “More precisely, kir-Flaradnam believed that the threat was ended, and I did not. He did not like my plans for further action, and he knew I would not obey him when he told me to stand down.”MoreLess
“You said what?” Staring balefully up at the iron-beamed ceiling now. “You’d better back that shit up, Warhelm. You’d better fucking explain to me why my father would cripple and blind one of his most powerful allies in the fight against the dwenda. Are you accusing him of treachery? Why would he commit such an act of violence against you?”
“It was not treachery, no. But we differed over ...how to end the Aldrain threat.” Near as Egar could tell, the screech-edged amiability in the demon’s voice hadn’t changed. If it had ever been pissed off about what ’Nam had supposedly done to it, the passing of a few thousand years certainly seemed to have taken the edge off. “More precisely, kir-Flaradnam believed that the threat was ended, and I did not. He did not like my plans for further action, and he knew I would not obey him when he told me to stand down.”MoreLess
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