Eliose:
Everything narrowed, and it wasn’t even the battlefield that took place or the whole commotion… it was just that moment on its own.
I stood at the edge of it all, half-hidden behind the line of trees, my bow already in my hand before I even remembered picking it up. My eyes were locked onto them.
Garren.
Alessia.
Alexander.
Lucien.
The entire war, reduced to a single point, a single decision. And though I knew that it was one that I shouldn’t be the one making, I knew that it was the only necessary one.
I didn’t move for a second, nor did I dare breathe. I knew that making one wrong step was going to cost something far worse than I would want to think about.
And she would be dead. Garren’s grip around Alessia’s neck tightened slightly, not enough to kill, but enough to
