"So?" I picked at the black gravelly rock around us as Rivi paused in the telling of her story. "What happened next?"
Rivi sighed and looked down "Well I killed one of them at least—that sleazy bastard Derick. The others managed to get away, but when I took Evera out of the protective sphere I put her in, she was…well, furious to put it lightly, and also half-scared to death. In my mind I'd merely killed a bastard who'd bullied her and driven away some pricks, but in the politics of the Divine Court I'd just declared war on the Human Pantheon. Naturally they wouldn't allow me to survive.
