"There's no need to kill him. This is a perfectly normal phenomenon." Adam froze the arrows with a blast of ice storm and came to Lina's side.
Lina waved the forest elves back and knelt before Adam without a moment's hesitation, head bowed. "Master, I don't know why this is happening. To guard against future trouble, wouldn't it be better to simply kill him?"
Lina could swear that when she said it, that was honestly what she had been thinking; even so, she did not dare raise her head, and she lowered it even further, below Adam's.
"Master, why not do as she says?" the devil said slyly. "I think things will get very interesting if her father dies."
Adam ignored the devil, gave Lina a look that was half a smile, then patted her on the back with a wing. "I know. It's a bloodline leap. It has nothing to do with you... mm, with whether you wanted to save him or not."
"Master, thank you for your trust," Lina said, looking utterly overcome with gratitude.