Malrik POV

“So we fabricate evidence,” Quillan said flatly.

I shook my head, a short humorless sound escaping me. “Not fabricate. We tie what we already have to them stretch the truth where it needs stretching.”

Quillan arched a brow, waiting. I kept going. “One of two things happened: either Zebulon used Tavrix to carry out that atrocity and then had him killed to cover the tracks, or the Fiji massacre was a deliberate mass poisoning staged to look like a Moonchild ...