"ENOUGH!" Queen Nuli screamed to the top of her lungs, veins bulging from her porcelain neck. "If he says one more word, Zed, kill him."

Inside the tense cyclone forming around us, while everyone looked at the standoff between Zed and Blayse, I kept that promise to myself. One down.

"Ok, wait a minute now," Scarleth's diplomatic side came out. "Let's all...just sit, and drink. We don't kill our own. He is Viper, but he is also Nuli."

"A toast," I awkwardly suggested, ...