I sat back on the bed, and Chloe was looking at me with concern. She had never seen me this angry before. She had an apple in her hand, which she had been eating the whole time. After Raymond left and it was just Chloe and me in the room, she asked me, "Why didn't you agree to his offer? They could have helped us become stronger. Why didn't you join the alliance?"
"It wasn't an alliance. Gandalf was trying to create his own supreme government. He wanted to be an emperor, and if I had joined that alliance, I would have come under his influence."
"I don't understand how this was a scheme. Can you explain?"
