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"So she doesn’t care about loyalty?" Mustang asks "Interesting"

"Pfah Agrippina’s a wicked bitch," Kavax grue one," Victra warns "She’s still ies That she is your mother"

"And hoe know you’re not in collusion with them, Victra?" Daxo asks softly "Perhaps you spy? Perhaps you wait How do you trust her loyalty, Darrow? She could easily have sent word …"

Mustang looks atthat myself"

"Why do I trust you, Daxo, or you, Kavax?" I ask "Either of you would be in prime shape, earn pardons, earn more territories and n"

"And your heart to Cassius’s mother," Sevro reminds me

"Thank you, Sevro"

"Here to help!" He grabs a drumstick off the table’s spread and feeds it to Sophocles Considering, he takes a bite hi quietly to the fox

"I trust Victra for the sa to look away fro sets her coffee cup down loudly "I’ll be blunt I don’t trust a Julii further than I could throw one"

"That’s because you’re intihter "‘Little’?"

"I have a decade on you, darling One day you’ll look back at yourself and laugh Was I really so foolish, so simple? Additionally, you’re not very tall So I’ll call you little"

"I don’t cat-fight," Mustang says coldly "I don’t trust you because I don’t know you All I know is your mother’s reputation is not apolitical She’s a schemer A briber My father knew it I know it You know it"

"Yes, to a degree my mother is a sche I am not, it is a liar I’ve never told one, and never will Unlike some people" The arch of eyebrows makes it quite clear what she means

"Bad apples spawn bad seeds, Darrow," Daxo warns "Put your feelings aside on this one She was raised by a dangerous woman There’s no need to mistreat her, but we can’t have her in this council I would encourage you to place her in quarters till this is over"

"Yes" Kavax raps the table with his knotted knuckles "Agreed Bad seeds"