"To be honest, part of this mess is my fault," Helena admitted, her voice carrying that reluctant tone of someone who'd been nudged—if not outright pressured—by Selene to say it.
"What do you mean by that? Didn't Selene just admit earlier that she was the one at fault too?"
Of course I shot back with that response. I wasn't going to let her act like she was the sole culprit here. Besides, deep down, I knew she actually hadn't done anything truly wrong—at least, not in a way that justified a full confession.
"No, I mean... earlier I shouldn't have activated the Emanator Field before we even started the experiment."
She said it casually, as if firing up something with a name like Emanator Field before the designated start time was just a minor slip-up, the kind of harmless mistake anyone could make. But the way her eyes avoided mine told me she already knew it was far from harmless.
Wait, Emanator what?
