I'm not doing it.
Over my dead body. The council can go to hell!
Let them do their worst!
Anna stormed out of the room, furious, but trembling all over. Leon's words echoed in her head, reminding her just the predicament she was in.
It wasn't that she had forgotten what the council asked. It was that she refused to think about it at all. Especially the second condition to keeping Leon alive.
Make an heir in six months if he survives.
Anna glanced in the direction of his room, and for two seconds she contemplated flooding him with her black spores so he'd die.
"Urgh! Now I really want to go home!"
[You have one task left, hostie. Crush that and you're 50% closer to going home.]
On hearing the System's voice, Anna's face turned dark and angry. "You have some nerve to talk, after you left me to die!"
[In the future, it will make sense why you got two very specific final tasks.]
Anna huffed, folding her arms. "Really that's the consolation you're going to offer me?"
