53: Mikael

Mikael sighed as he started to explain everything to Viktor. He mostly focused on the weapons, but there was some background information he needed to know too, about who these men were, and the kind of power and influence they had. Or once had, given that at least three of the key members of the network had been killed when they went for Jason, plus Henrik.

He left out Ashallia's presence during it all, and the abilities she'd begun showing. Not just because he was wary and distrustful of Vik and his brothers, but also because she wasn't exactly aware that those deaths were mostly caused by her. He didn't think she'd react particularly well to finding out she'd killed someone - or many someones, all at once, with the huge burst of power she'd unleashed at the end.

They still weren't entirely sure whether it was her power that had escalated rapidly, or simply that the first wounds she'd transferred were much less severe, but at least the first ones she'd hit with it had been alive en