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She’s toying with Wolf Maybe with hly she disrupted the room with a few short sentences if the stakes weren’t so da to be able to kill anyone We simply need you to shoot him in the throat”

She turns those eerie eyes on ain When I first met Wolf, his eyes spookedand nore to realize that Wolf has becoether, but I don’t think that’s a possibility with his sister

She’s fucking terrifying

Lizzie stops playing with Malachi’s hair and straightens “Explain My baby brother was sparse on the details”

I open my mouth, but Rylan beats me to the punch It’s just as well For whatever reason, Lizzie see with him than with anyone else in the roo to kill Cornelius Lancaster”

She doesn’t see Even with hs, a thread ofclose to that canny old bastard”

“We don’t need or want you to get close” Rylan points to the raphical ones soet a better idea of exactly e’re working with “You’re the best long-range attacker in this realm”

“Flattery will get you everywhere” She scans the map and then looks back at him “Explain what you want Then I’ll tell you my price”

“You’ll be here” He points to the X south of the coh that you’ll have a clear shot of the courtyard” Rylan er to the drawn in compound “Cornelius will be there We need you to shoot hih power behind it to destroy his vocal cords”

“He’ll heal fast”

“That’s our problem”

More likely, that’s my proble ether I lean a little harder against Wolf He hasn’ther the way ain the extreme

Rylan sits back “Will you do it?”