"We need to pressure-test him," Hu Qing declared, spreading his arms wide as if to embrace the entire hostile assembly.
"We need to place him in the one environment where control isn't an option, but necessary for survival."
'What are they talking about? An environment where survival is necessary?!' Leon screamed in his thoughts. His eyes rolled in their sockets, straining to see the expression on the crowd's face.
Whispers tore through the formal silence, then escalated into an overlapping declaration.
"Then let's place him back into the Shattered Lands!" a voice shouted from the back seats. "Not for a 48-hour trial, but for ninety days!"
"Yeah, with that, if he survives, then he can be useful, and if he dies, then we'll be safe!"
'Safe from who?' Leon glanced at the man's face as thoughts reeled in his mind.
