467 Lesson One Complete

Ver Dilen continued. "Your friends let themselves fight separately instead of as one because they held blind faith in you. What's worse is that you didn't trust Sindre to finish the fight, so you abandoned Merlin and Dag to rush after me. Otherwise you wouldn't have been begging me to save your friends in the middle of a fight."

"Did you let them die-"

Ver Dilen flicked Wilhelm's forehead hard enough to snap his head back. "I'm not that boorish. Now as I was saying, although you seem to hold no malice towards them, you almost got them killed today. Whose fault was it?"

Wilhelm lowered his head.

"Don't pretend you aren't thinking about it," Ver Dilen insisted. "And don't say it was only your fault, especially when it's partially my own fault as well."

"Why would it be your fault?" Wilhelm tactfully tried to switch subjects.