"Oh, please… There's no need to fall on my feet, or prostrate before the Heavens for the prophecy which placed me on your side! After all, it's not like I saved your life and the future of your home…Wait, that's exactly what I did! So show some damn gratitude!"
Standing above the same patch of sea to which they had been teleported after being saved from the Church, Daneel and Alistair had been looking at each other for an entire minute without saying anything before the Basilisk finally put her hands on her hips and said this in a tone filled with sarcasm and mild anger.
The Heroes had been sent away instantly, along with the three assassins who had been charged to use the Artefact sent with them to see them safely over the Sea. After that, the staring match had started, during which Daneel was not proud to admit that he had had to expend a lot of effort to get over the crippling sense of having too many enemies.
