Kate smiled casually, toweling her hair as she sat down. "Yeah, i'll leave at dawn."
"Okay."
The night quieted down. The city lights flickered through the curtains, painting faint glows across the room.
Kate drifted off first, her breathing calm and steady. Orion lay awake a little longer, staring at the faint shimmer of the Prehistoric egg inside his storage card while his natural energy once again began to become restless… "Let's not do it now. Let's do it after returning."
Moments later, he too closed his eyes, letting the soft hum of the city fade into silence.
*
A few hours later, deep within the red-light district of Ashenford city, neon lights flickered lazily above the narrow streets where brothels and love hotels stood shoulder to shoulder, their walls echoing with muffled laughter and music.
But inside one such brothel, the scene was entirely different.
