Her inner conflict did not stop her from tossing out wands. After all, multitasking was Laira's talent. Alustriel could do a little of it too, but she could only throw two at once.
After all, her other hand still had to cast defensive spells on herself... And forget twenty meters—even at the sixty-meter limit of her casting range, it was not as though she could not manage it.
The Alustriel in Nasre's memories probably lived a thousand years ago, didn't she?
The High Lady's silver hair flew wildly amid the surging ripples of magic, but she still silently sent Laira a message: The Lord of Aglaia seems to have some talent as a nature lord. Could he easily tell lies from good and evil?
What if he checks the accounts?
How much did you secretly spend? Let me see whether I can make it up.
At worst, I'll open the underground treasury beneath the Silver Palace.
The most dangerous moment of Alustriel's life had been when Sammaster and Nasre attacked her... Fortunately, Laira and Khelben arrived in time and saved her.
Otherwise, like Sylune, she would have had to wait for Mystra to revive her... It would not have been difficult, but it would have been embarrassing.
So even though many things had happened, Alustriel glanced at Khelben from the corner of her eye. She still had to endure it for the sake of that debt of gratitude.
Though she had also tried every possible way to leave contingencies in Waterdeep, sometimes there was little she could do if the other side simply had no shame.
And the main reason Laira had resolutely separated from Khelben was not that his countless schemes had become unbearable... If Laira had truly been that kind-hearted, she would not have maintained friendly relations with