“So, she bugs the system for months, almost destroys it, and then conveniently she has the only way to fix it? Did I get that all right?” Ashleigh asked not, bothering to hold back her irritation.
“I mean it’s a little more nuanced than all that,” Nessa said, “but yea, basically.”
Ashleigh looked back and forth between Caleb, Galen, Fiona, and Nessa.
“Am I seriously the only one that sees a problem in this?” she asked.
“I understand where you are coming from, and I don’t like it either,” Fiona replied.
“Thank you,” Ashleigh sighed.
“But,” Fiona sighed, “it does seem like our only option.”
“The amount of work we would lose… it’s not insignificant,” Galen said. “Just in the research we’ve gathered about the strange rogue attacks and the Fae in Winter… if we can save it, we need to.”
Ashleigh shook her head.
“Galen, you of all people I expected to agree with me. You didn’t trust her before you even knew what she had done.”
