Ares was still staring at me, but I didn’t have anything else to say. I’d spoken my mind, and I didn’t care if he thought I was naive for trusting him, as Eurus probably did. I didn’t care because it didn’t, and wouldn’t, change anything.
Because it didn’t matter how we found ourselves in these circumstances. Blame was useless here, and I wasn’t going to waste my time bemoaning my fate when I was already firmly in its grasp. All that mattered was survival, and we only had each other to lean on. Whether we were enemies or allies or something vaguely in between, the truth remained that there was no one else around to help us.
Just Ares, me, and Charybdis lying in wait somewhere to destroy us both, that was all.
It was a quiet and rhythmic splish-splashing outside the boat that saved me fr
