All Lexie wanted was to slay Yogev.
The voices echoing inside her mind had grown deafening: her sisters's bright laughter, her weeping, her random jokes, her radiant smile, and the warm, casual conversations with her mother. Everything swirled within her skull with suffocating force, tormenting her to the point where she craved death if she failed to avenge their slaughter.
The solitary comfort keeping her anchored was the realization that she was surrounded by people who refused to blindly submit to Yogev's grand speech.
From her perspective, her own people were too shattered and traumatized to even process logic; the survivors of District Five followed Yogev simply because he was stronger than their fallen commander; and the citizens of District Two were completely blinded by his dark charisma.
However, the populace of District Four remained entirely unconvinced by his grand declarations.
