"Are you asking me to join you?" Evelina echoed in a shaky voice.
A dry, disbelieving laugh escaped her lips.
"You framed me," her voice was sharper now. "You poisoned Damian. You tried to turn the court against me, destroy my name, my life. And even before all this, you tried to claim my work back at the lab. You tried to kill me, Tobias."
His expression didn't change.
If anything, the maskless side of his face grew even more unreadable.
"So tell me," she snarled, "why should I even be talking to you—and not signalling every warrior in Arcadia to hunt you down and burn you out of your filthy little tunnels?"
Silence stretched between them.
The wind stirred again.
Tobias didn't blink. "Because deep down, you know I'm not wrong."
Evelina's jaw clenched.
