Teres

Okay, if her plan was to clobber Belial this whole time then Douglass should have told us that. (Honestly, I'd have expected her to have fled with Shra without trying to rescue Raum since Raum is much less accessible.)

Methinks what Axis really means is that he hasn't seen this kind of cruelty inflicted by people like him.

... Axis is an idiot.

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Belial stood guard alone, trying to keep his thoughts corralled with little success.

This was why the standard procedure was to post two or three guards, just in case, he thought. Not that Axis cared much about standard procedure, he thought it got in the way of his brilliance. And his departures did usually work out eventually.

Belial didn't think this was one of those times. He hadn't thought it was a good idea when Axis gave the order. But when Axis said jump, you jumped if you knew what was good for you.

Which seemed downright sinister when you thought of it like that. Belial sighed and tried to find something else to occupy his thoughts.

Unfortunately, the only other thing that came to mind was the little girl. She had to have been two or three, maybe four at the very most. Well under the age of reason. You couldn't expect her to know right from wrong yet, and the thought of executing her for something she couldn't possibly understand didn't sit well with Belial. It wasn't...

It wasn't right.