"So..... what are we going to do with him?"
They all looked at Esmé for an answer, before Luriel interrupted to interject, looking at her coldly.
"For the record, don't feel as though this gets you out of anything. In fact, by buying yourself this 'oh so precious time', you are simply giving me enough time to come up with more things that I need to say. So I guess I should say 'thank you for taking the easy way out'."
Esmé cringed again. Now, she was betting that it was a set up. Just thinking about the lecture she would be the recipient of was enough to exhaust her. While she had no problem admitting that she was wrong, she had lost the initiative thanks to them, so now, they could say she was only apologising for them to stop.
'Ahhhh, it was so frustrating.'
