Selûne spread her hands helplessly. "But Shar, what's the use of being angry at me?
At most, I was an accomplice.
And I only did it as a precaution, in case you followed that brat and never came back, leaving Toril for good."
Shar's eyes darkened as she repeated, "What the hell are you talking about?"
Hill silently lifted his crystal goblet and took a huge gulp of water... to force down the laughter he had nearly failed to contain.
Still, Selûne really did dare to say anything.
Shar was Toril's Primordial Darkness.
Even if her obsession had eased somewhat, there was no way she would ever give up Toril.
What Selûne really meant was probably this: rather than letting Shar shift her attention from Selûne and Toril to William, she might as well drag William down with her.
If she had not harbored that little thought, she would never have cooperated with Ao so readily.
Ao might have a rotten mind, but there were not actually many Gods and powerful beings he could use.
Even someone as useful as Cyric had really been maneuvered into place by Ao's schemes. It was not as though Cyric would do whatever Ao told him to do.
The Toril Gods all had Ao's style: they would never act unless they saw profit in it.
No one would help that old man with something like offending Shar while also handing some of their authority over to a new God.
Only Selûne would join in the mischief because it involved Shar.
Still, as she had said, she would not take the initiative to do anything... if William saw some advantage in Toril and became interested on his own, that would not count as her doing.
Though William was never going to develop any interest in