Arthur stared at the empty space where the demons had been, one eyebrow lifting slightly.
'That worked easier than I expected,' he thought. 'Guess they weren't as far along as I assumed.'
Ahox's sneer vanished from his face in an instant, replaced by something far more guarded.
Vorath's eyes had gone wide, fixed on the empty space where ten demons had stood only a heartbeat earlier.
Neither of them spoke aloud. A moment passed between them in silence, something unseen and unheard passing back and forth through the air, private and closed off from everyone else in the hall.
Arthur felt it anyway, a faint pull at the edge of his awareness where the Multiverse Soul Gem rested quietly within him, and their exchange came through as clearly as if they'd spoken it out loud.
