Flashpoint

Gareth let out a short, skeptical laugh. "I appreciate the effort, but that's a little far-fetched even for a pep talk."

Kael looked at him with complete seriousness. "I'm not trying to make you feel better."

Kael's mind had already run the numbers, and by every calculation that processor of a brain could produce, there was a genuine eighty percent probability this would work exactly as described.