"Their top mistake was taking part in those illegal gambles regarding the final outcome of the apocalypses in the first place," the woman on stage continued. Her words shed an entirely new light on the celestial politics I was currently entangled in.
I stood there, absorbing every syllable; I had suspected the angels were corrupt, but I hadn't realised they were essentially high-stakes bookies rigging a cosmic game.
"Speaking as if you aren't one of the very organisations running such illegal gambles yourselves," the Dragon Race representative snorted. I had to admit, the lizard had a point. Hypocrisy seemed to be the universal language of the elite.
"We are running legal operations," the answer came swiftly, without a single tremor of doubt in her voice. She sounded like a seasoned lawyer defending a corporate giant.
