The Crone exhaled heavily and shapeshifted back into the Mother, looking at Ripha as if Solus had snatched first place at the school's science fair from her Horsemen without even trying.
"I'm sorry, you've lost me." Menadion wanted to gloat, but it was hard to do it when she had no idea what she was supposed to gloat about. "In what way did Epphy surpass your Horsemen?
"She's weaker than them, her tower doesn't work away from a mana geyser, and she's a lousy fighter."
"Of course she is." The Mother snorted. "Epphy has gotten her human body back for how long? Three years? My Horsemen had millennia to master their skills, whereas Epphy has no memory of the twenty-eight years she lived with you.
"We're talking about the fusion, dumbass, don't you remember?"
"I do, but whatever your point is, it's still unclear." Silverwing kept the liquor coming since Baba Yaga seemed to need it.
