Spaceships and Magic, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Chapter 173: An Old Face

Silence fell across the holographic eting as Lara and I stared one another down, neither of us willing to give any quarter as we both stared daggers across the table.

"You know each other?" Tessa asked from my side, "How is that even possible?"

I mulled the question over in my head, wondering how much I should give away considering the situation that Lara and I had found ourselves in when we had last t.

Destroying a planet in combat was certainly one way of getting to know soone.

I didn't get the chance to tell the story my way.

"Oh, Jacob and I are very well acquainted with one another," Lara said, "We knew one another a long ti ago, in a place very different and yet incredibly similar to this one. Never mind, I'm sure we will settle our differences at so point or another."

There was a lot layered into that statent that I had to carefully try to unpick.

We weren't exactly well acquainted, that wasn't the way I would put it. If anything I barely knew the girl. The most I had gotten to know her was actually when her father had explained to the upbringing she'd had, and even then that was through the lens of his understanding and not her own.

The real danger was the veiled threat there.

She intended for us to et up at so point, and when we did she intended for us to settle our differences.

If we fought it would probably an the end of another planet, which was sort of the opposite of what I wanted to happen on this world. I wasn't going to lose another planet, especially not to Lara.

My blood had started to boil. My anger was starting to rise.

But sohow she had implanted herself here and had managed to get an entire council of humans to trust her. That was impressive work for such a short period of ti, especially considering how unhinged she had been the last ti I saw her.

Maybe she had changed.

Maybe with so distance from her father, and so actual respect from a group of people that genuinely needed her help, instead of being relegated to the show pony tour that she had been operating back on Prespian City had done her so good.

That didn't an I was going to let my guard down during our eventual confrontation.