Chapter 91: Interlude: Kordia
"What do you mean he fell? He has fucking wings!"
Kordia had to put more effort into resisting the urge to shriek at the no-good bully who said he saw Kir disappear.
She and Rainier knew about Lugh, which is why, here at the eleventh-floor outpost, she had focused in on him the moment she heard Kir was gone. Which is how they wound up outside the wall, with Kordia pinning the boy against a tree with magic.
"I mean they broke his wing! Then when they threw his bat off the edge, he just shouted ’Stella’ and dove after her!" Lugh spoke rapidly. When Kordia had abducted him at the latrine pit, she’d been surprised when he didn’t even try to call out for help, much less resist aside from when he’d first lost the ability to move.
"Why didn’t Stella just fly away?" Kordia demanded.
"I don’t know! She looked sick or something. The bat’s eyes weren’t even open," Lugh confessed freely. "I’m not lying, it was Professor Fayren and the Knight Commander who... executed him."
Kordia sneered, "Don’t try to sell me a line, you racist shit! They’re both in trouble for losing a student. And if they did attack Kir, what, you just watched and did nothing? So you could get a shiny-fucking shield?"
She knew what the prize had been, an enchanted shield with a high amount of magic resistance. Something any Arcane Knight would love to have, especially the cadets who were from poorer families. Like the human in front of her.
"There was nothing I could do!" he said. "Professor Fayren showed up an hour later, pretending not to notice Kir was gone... We searched, but he pushed everyone to pack up and leave." Lugh looked down guiltily, "I didn’t want to get anyone else killed."
"So you raced ahead? You could have searched harder!" Kordia raised her voice. "You wanted him dead, admit it!"
Lugh lowered his head, "I knew no one would believe me," he said, evading her question.