>>19552291Holly blinked at that. It seemed that more had changed in the intervening months than she’d previously been aware of. Sola Fire working with Priscilla Divine, after what Divine had done to Nika? Holly knew that Ash had allowed Divine to get her claws into Carmody, had been negligent and offered the younger Jefferson sibling up on a silver platter, but for Sola to turn to the Angels…
She did not blame Divine. It was merely her nature, such was the parable of the scorpion and the frog. The villain in that story was the frog, he who was foolishness enough to allow himself to get stung. Did one not have an obligation to protect oneself?
Still, it only strengthened Holly’s resolve. To do what had to be done. Divine was a beast making the most of a broken system, a wolf preying upon the flock as the shepherds focused more on consuming their own lambs than protecting them.
Holly gripped Amy’s hand, “I’d like that. I’d like that a lot. I know they say Australians can drink, but trust me, amiga, you weren’t in Buenos Aires when we won the World Cup.”
