Aisella looked between them with the careful attention of someone tracking a conversation that had more layers than its surface. She didn't say anything.
"What I'm trying to convey," Mireya said, looking directly at Elizabeth, "is that Kregg and Virella were fully cooperative!"
"Kregg gave Rex information, gave him the ring, and gave him a document with the Balance Keeper's compact in it. And Rex killed them anyway."
"Both of them. After they had stopped fighting."
Elizabeth looked at Rex again, using the steady gaze she reserved for deciding whether to press a point.
"The Legion commanders," Rex said, "had personally overseen the capture of Apollo, Veylor, and one of your expedition members."
"Virella put stone spurs through Iris's back in the chamber."
"Kregg has been running extraction operations against reincarnators for fourteen years." He paused. "They were not neutralized threats."
