![]() The Gauntlet
-- EXCERPT: “They don’t trust you.” I interrupted, tapping my foot and making eyes at Ed in an attempt to get him over here. The guy looked terrified. “This guy trusts me,” she said, nodding to Eddy who was slowly walking towards us. So slow he might as well have been walking backwards. I gave her a look, my eyebrows twisting together. She beamed with a broader grin. Damn, all these Eternals were delusional. “This guy is terrified you are going to eat him. Eddy?” I asked when he was only about half way too us. “Do you trust her?” He froze in place, taking one slow step back. “I don’t know how to answer that. If I say no, will she kill me?” Poor Eddy was practically shaking in his boots. I didn’t blame him, Wynifred had always been an unknown. So yeah, I guess still terrifying. Just terrifying and irritating. “I haven’t killed anyone in a few hundred years, kid, and I used to be pretty good at it.” Eddy took another step back, a tiny squeak echoing from behind one of the tents in the communal sleeping space we were traversing through. “You enjoyed blowing people up?” I asked, regretting the question when she smiled. “You enjoy turning buildings to rubble,” she shrugged, smiling again. “I enjoy standing up to oppressors for the sake of my people.” It was taking everything in me not to throw her into the wall. But I wasn’t about to go throwing murderesses against walls if I wasn’t sure I could win. “The thing about causes, kid, is that you have to make sure you are on the right side. The bad side looks just like the good one when you don’t know any better.” “I know which side I’m on,” I said between the grit in my teeth, fists tight against my thighs. Maybe I could punch her. “Sure you do, come find me after you’ve killed your third ‘tyrant’ and tell me if you still think so. Maybe we can go blow up buildings together. Or people. Guess it depends on how your revolution pans out.” She looked around her, again. The curious under mortals who had peeked out to stare at us retreating back into their holes. “What the hell is wrong with you?” “Boredom.” She shrugged her shoulders, the maniacal light vanishing from her eyes. How in the hell was this a four-thousand-year-old immortal and mother of the headmaster to Imdalind Academy? ![]()
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