"Or unwise," Kylo points out. "If you hadn't sided with your friend with the shovel, you might have been pardoned along with Kirigan. The others who proved themselves willing to co-operate and were released."

He watches her expression for a moment, then lets his eyes track down to the antler points piercing up through her skin. Somehow, he'd expected them to be a fiction of the Horizon much like his own fire-tipped fingers. Interesting.