It took no more than a flicker of his gaze for Theron to realize that he had fallen into a trap.
He was certain that he had lured the Patriarch away. Though, in the first place, he had never laid eyes on Patriarch Nightingale to begin with—the man had been too high in the skies.
The real reason Theron had never shown himself near the entrances was out of an abundance of caution.
His original plan was just as Patriarch Nightingale had assumed. He wanted to lure the lion away from the pride, and then target the more vulnerable cubs.
He was moments away from succeeding, and the longer the battle went on for, the more sure he was that Patriarch Nightingale likely wasn't here, or else why would he wait so long to take action against a mere Silver Mancer?
But here he was.
That tidbit of information, though… it was important, and it was something that someone else would have missed.
