Bab 47: Dela's Betrayal 3

"Seizing my lands… keeping me bound up in chains… that's not bullying??"

Dela questions Gorak intensely; a dramatic teardrop trickling down her jade-smooth face to solidify her point.

"For over a year after my capture, I learned to live with a being I desperately hated, to survive. Just to live to see the day of my people's salvation, and to partake of it.

Now at last it has come."

"Call me what you will; his lover, his hostage, his victim, his fated... but please, hear my request. 

I desire recompense. To avenge the damage done to my people.

At the very least, I deserve to defend my honour and the honour of all of my kind that sacrificed themselves fighting this demon's reign of terror!"

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'Demon...'

Gorak flinches at the mention of "demon". Dela's eyes were watery, and her expression full of deep-seated pain.

Did she mean these words?

She wouldn't even look at him to let him know if she was only kidding…