"You could have come to us before now," I said when the silence following the storm's pending arrival took over. "Shared what you knew, worked with us, not against us. We could have figured this out together." I didn't bother looking for support from the others. We'd all been talking amongst ourselves, after all. I was well aware the question I posed wouldn't have been top of the list for anyone, not even me, until this point in time when it seemed to matter more than anything.
Okay, not all of us. Except Delilah. And Cadence was a new addition to team Help Chaos Save Creation, right? Still.
Details that only seemed to stretch out into infinity while everything hung in the balance. How I was starting to hate that word.
Isis didn't even bother to hide her disdain for the suggestion. "Doom's mandate is to end Creation, to remove all trace of what came before," she said. "Would you really have stood for that?"