Marked by the Enemy King
"Don't you dare use the child as a lever to force my hand. I am trying to keep the sky from falling on us both."
Aris didn't back down. He leaned in, his face inches from Nikos’s, his eyes burning with a desperate, frantic light. "The sky is already falling, Nikos! Look around you! The walls are weeping rust, the air scrubbers are wheezing their last, and you’re standing here paralyzed by the thought of a little data overload? What happens when the pressure finally blows the bulkheads? We’ll be crushed, the child will be crushed, and all your 'moral reservations' will be buried under ten tons of reinforced steel."