My breath hitched in my throat as the math clicked into place, hitting my brain like a speeding truck.
"If my prayer falters, and an Outsider manages to slip a hallucination into your mind... Garek will not be able to physically stop you from opening the door. You will put him in the dirt, unlock the gates, and every single person inside this camp will die."
"Untrue…" I countered, raising a hand to immediately dismiss the terrifying variable she just introduced. "I didn't truly beat Garek. On top of severely underestimating me, he wasn't actually trying to kill me. Had he come at me with everything he had right out of the gate, the results may have turned out differently."
Mizuki simply stared at me, her brown eyes completely devoid of comfort.
"May have…" she emphasized, dropping the two words into the quiet room like a live grenade.
