Lin Zhaoyue.
She stood at the gate, her presence casual yet suffocating, as if she had been waiting there for hours.
Her eyes lit up like stars when she spotted them.
"There you two!" she called out, her tone airy, almost playful. "Good timing there, now follow me."
She gave no explanation, no chance to refuse.
She simply turned and began walking away as though it were the most natural thing in the world that they would obey.
And they had. Both of them dare not defy the matriach.
Xiao Pei swallowed, remembering the restless two days that followed.
Lin Zhaoyue led them deep into the Dark Forest, through terrain so wild and dense that even the most hardened mercenaries would have likely avoided.
She spoke little, giving no reason for the summoning.
It was only when they heard the guttural growls and saw the first pair of golden Saberfang eyes gleaming in the dark that Xiao Pei realized what she had been looking for all along.
