“I’m surprised that you allowed her to go. You’ve never been particularly fond of bending the rules for someone.”
Why was I not surprised that she had chosen this exact moment to make an appearance, that she had decided that now was the time for her to break the silence that had lasted for days while she had spent her time moping? I understood that she needed to mourn—after all, when you’re someone like a Goddess, you don’t expect the day to come when you find out that you’re dying. It must be a hard thing to grow accustomed to.
“What was I supposed to do? Keep the girl from going to see her family? She’s in a foreign place. If I refused to let her go, I would have had the Continental government breathing fire down my neck.”
Even though I knew that I had a completely
