Sima Shi chuckled, shaking his head as he took another sip of his tea.
"Forgiveness for traitors is nothing more than asking for another knife in the back. For all we know, he had already alerted the King's forces to our plans and location. What you did was nothing short of the most logical choice."
He said calmly, walking over and placing a hand on the human's shoulder...
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Inside the forest, Eric's bones finally reconnected, pulling the rest of their fragmented pieces together, though a few pieces were still missing or shattered beyond being usable, and were simply left abandoned in the clearing where he had been laying. Finally, his eye illuminated again, and his body shuddered before rising to it's feet limply...