Shar gazed silently at Lathander as he spouted one load of nonsense after another.
Yet the Great Peacock, who merely waved his tail at her, showed no sense of urgency whatsoever.
Shar instantly understood why Lathander had suddenly relaxed.
After confirming that the enemies in this world included Shadow Demons, traces of some of her Shadow Wraiths under someone else's control... and Iggwilv, who was bound to cause her trouble, Lathander had found his balance.
Although he still worried that Shar would make trouble for him along Amaunator's Path of Fate, Lathander could now be certain that she would not take things too far.
Unless Shar could instantly suppress both the Shadow Demons and the Witch-Queen in this world, and even discover, as quickly as possible, what flaws in her own Shadow Wraiths had allowed the enemy to exploit and control them.
Yet both of them understood that this was simply impossible.
Especially when it came to the Shadow Demons.
Even if they had initially believed that Shar had no way to free them from that isolated space and could do nothing to help them, Iggwilv—a witch weaker than Shar—had the power to give them some breathing room, and even a chance to escape that cage. That could only prove that Shar had abandoned them.
Not only had she abandoned them, she had even left people behind to monitor their every move.
Although this might merely have been a lie Iggwilv used to deceive them, with the Shadow Demons' extreme views and limited capacity for thought, they could not conceive of any other possibility.
As long as Iggwilv harbored ill intentions toward Shar, the Daughter of Dark Night would instantly become one of Toril's two loathsome moons again.
That was why Shar's expression had changed the instant she confirmed traces