Alice never really knew why it all came apart. Why it had to go the way it had. Wasn’t it just right, she thought. Wasn’t it just right for the peace to continue? Yet there they were, scarred and damaged by the people they thought would do anything to protect the accord. Bayi, for that matter. “I thought you’d keep to the treaty,” Alice said, as she raised a finger to touch the memory of the god-creature in front of her. “You, of all people,” she said. “But it doesn’t matter anymore. You’re as good as dead. You and your ‘safety’ around you.”
Despite, Alice’s feelings, the memory still continued to play. Her head turned back to her father as he brought the agenda to the rest of the god council. Perhaps, she thought, the very first one since centuries.
At the center was a round table. “Shall we sit?” her father said, motioning for the stone table in front of them. “Now,&
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