"I want to come with you," Ava said quietly, probably flooring Andreios. She wouldn't be surprised if he couldn't believe what she was saying, she could barely believe it herself. Going with Andreios meant that she agreed that James Wenham needed to die. She felt a little off balance at that moment, coming to terms with the fact that a man who raised her from birth & pretended to love her was the one who tried to rip everything away.

She couldn't forgive him after what he'd just done to her mother, & what she now knew for certain he'd been doing to Andreios. How many people did he have to torture before she stood up against him & stopped him once & for all? & here was Andreios, suggesting she go hide away while he took care of the dirty work, offering no promises that he would even be able to return to her after this.

"Stop trying to protect me," Ava said quietly, "I am going to go back with you, Andreios. If I come with you, you have a better chance of defeating him. If you died alone without me there, I... a-anyway, if you die, he will come find my mother & I anyway, so it doesn't do us any good to split up at this point."

"Take my mother to the village just outside of the Wenham estate & come back," Ava suggested quietly, "I will break the talismans he put in place to keep her here, burn the house down, & then wait for you at the mansion. I will tell him we found Mama dead & you burned the house to contain her sickness. When you return, we will give him no mercy. I thought on the travel back here that Fa- that James could be reasoned with, but now I know how naive that hope was."