No one could comfort Haywood after he lost his sister, and he didn't need anyone to.
His mismatched blue and purple eyes were calm to the point of numbness, but they weren't weak.
Maria, some distance away, could no longer calm the uproar among the Wizards. She herself was surprised, and she didn't feel good about it either.
But whenever she thought of how Wizard Murphy had sacrificed himself for the Wall of Sighs, and how even his body had become the new First Wizard Tower to keep guarding the Wall of Sighs, she couldn't bring herself to hate him.
She walked over to Thor and saw how calm he was. Remembering that Thor hadn't signed the crystal wall at all, she gave a bitter smile. "Thor, it seems I can't join your faction. My life is bound to the Wall of Sighs now, and everything has to take its interests as the top priority."
"That won't do," Thor said, bluntly refusing her. "We already made a deal."
Maria hadn't expected Thor to say that. It didn't seem like him.
Before Maria could wonder about it for long, Thor lifted his head slightly and faced the Wall of Sighs. "Wizard Murphy agreed to let you join my faction, too. You can't go back on that."
Thor hadn't just been watching the commotion. In fact, after realizing that the Wall of Sighs had fused with the spiritual bodies of so many Wizards, he'd been wondering whether it counted as a special life-form.
If it did, did it have its own unique Fate Line?
Thor said to those around him, "Let's go over. The Wall of Sighs is too fragile like this; it might not withstand the Black Tide. We'll inscribe a few Witchcraft Arrays on it and strengthen the Wizards' life