Effie moved slightly, shifting her weight away from the spear to be able to raise it quickly, if need be.
Looking at Mordret calmly, she said:
"Actually, I'm also curious. Why are you still wasting your time here? Don't you know that your father is currently fighting Ki Song? If you don't hurry up and make yourself scarce, she'll kill him all on her own. That'd be pretty sad, right? I mean, since you're obsessed with revenge to a demented degree."
Mordret's smile widened a little.
"Oh, thank you for your concern. To be honest, I'll be pretty inconsolable if someone kills him before me. Incensed, even… and very, very cross with the person who robbed me of the pleasure of killing him myself. No need to worry, though — I'll depart for Godgrave as soon as I'm finished here."
He looked at Effie with an openly disdainful expression.
"...Shouldn't take me long to sort things out, anyway."
She grinned.
