Selphira and Sirius advanced down the main corridor of the administrative building.
They had just separated from Julius and his brothers, who would remain monitoring the Goldcrest camp while they took charge of bringing in the problematic heirs. Their footsteps echoed softly in the empty hallway.
"Leaving the boys with such little surveillance isn't the best decision," Sirius commented, his voice barely audible. "Not with Kharzan so close and determined to recover them."
"Allowing him to succeed would be accepting the enemy's superiority," Selphira responded, nodding. "But don't worry, I can clearly sense their energies… they're still in their rooms."
They had barely left the meeting hall behind when Sirius abruptly stopped, his body tensing slightly. Selphira perceived it instantly too, her sharpened senses detecting the strangely poorly executed jump of a familiar presence.
