Kinda buried the lede on that one didn't you, Riftwatch.
Abby hasn't got a poker face. Her expression shifts openly from surprise to an exhausted version of resignation.
"I'm already part of the fighting," she points out, and wrests her mace out of the dummy with an efficient yank, "Bit of a moot point by now, right."
It's not as if she can defect, is what she's saying. She's already got the shard, and, as she understands the current feelings toward Rifters, nobody else will have her. It's Riftwatch or trying to make it on her own, and the shard won't even let her do that without wounding her for it.
"Are they targeting new Rifters?" That would work much better than trying to snare people out of the Gallows. When she first arrived she was disorientated and weaponless and it would have been easy to kidnap her if Laura hadn't been there. "What can we do about it?"
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Abby hasn't got a poker face. Her expression shifts openly from surprise to an exhausted version of resignation.
"I'm already part of the fighting," she points out, and wrests her mace out of the dummy with an efficient yank, "Bit of a moot point by now, right."
It's not as if she can defect, is what she's saying. She's already got the shard, and, as she understands the current feelings toward Rifters, nobody else will have her. It's Riftwatch or trying to make it on her own, and the shard won't even let her do that without wounding her for it.
"Are they targeting new Rifters?" That would work much better than trying to snare people out of the Gallows. When she first arrived she was disorientated and weaponless and it would have been easy to kidnap her if Laura hadn't been there. "What can we do about it?"