POV: Aphrodite
Enemies become allies when survival demands it.
The parley continues past the point where I expected it to end.
The King's answer about surviving the prison break sits in the air between all of us and nobody rushes past it, because it's the kind of answer that deserves to be heard in its full weight before the conversation moves. I let it sit. The twins let it sit. Kai is still, which means he's running something. Lyra is watching the King with the specific quality she gets when she's building a picture of a person from multiple data points and the picture is more complicated than she expected.
The King explains the mechanism.
