Chapter 574

• He looked at Dao, and smiled. The way she slept was so peaceful, and strangely cute; probably because she was half snuggling with a huge gargoyle lady. Acelina slept like a spoiled princess; not really, but her half sitting half leaning position just gave him that impression. The four little critter demons, on the other hand, slept in a dog pile.
• "What I meant before," Caera said, "is... I'm not going to be happy about this... ever. You don't need to cheer me up. Just don't get in my way, let me deal with this, and then we can move on."
• "I won't get in your way. I'm going to help, remember?" He gestured to the extra bits of armor they'd collected from the corpses, and the smallest weapon they could find. Still too heavy to use, but the smaller sword was at least manageable.