Nothing was murmured for minutes.
For a long moment, Halo stood there watching her crouch on the ground. What to do with Aeliana? He genuinely didn't know.
Everything was prepared with Iris. The approach was uncomplicated: if he succeeded in killing them all, they'd plant the bodies on the streets. The locals would reflexively blame the Chaos Eaters.
They'd prepared backup plans if the situation went sideways, but given how effortlessly he'd dispatched the attackers, those precautions seemed unnecessary now.
Iris was waiting somewhere close. When she saw the fighting had ended, she'd appear to help arrange the scene.
But this inflexible girl's fate was hard to figure out now.
"I can't tell if I should be sorry or angry right now. I truly thought you were my friend… but your life is at risk because of me, and you weren't even who you said you were. Was everything between us a lie?"
