Evelyn was also trying to stall for time.
Their loyalty—the Baze Nobility who served Grand Lord Kles—was tenuous at best.
The entire operation of Baze World was more accurately described as a consortium of mutual interests. She had no intention of throwing her life away for Kles or some bullshit plan concocted by a Demon.
She and Delany had been lying low in Hurst for three years.
She had long anticipated that Lady Catherine and the Imperial Administrative Region would move against them, so she had made thorough preparations for a full withdrawal.
The only things that had spun out of her control were Lady Catherine's feint, which had completely fooled them, and something she never would have imagined in her wildest dreams: the arrival of the terrifying entity who had killed Warlord Nico.
The Emperor's Vengeful Angel.
Descending right upon her.
