As they moved down the hall, flanked by another guild member leading them to the squad they had been assigned to, their chatter barely registered in his ears. Riven's thoughts drifted to the human female from earlier.
The branch master.
Arxia's voice suddenly echoed in his mind.
"Father… that human female…"
"I know," he replied silently. There was something about her, something that set off alarms he could not ignore.
She was cautious and calculating. Her gaze had lingered on them longer than polite curiosity allowed, sharp and probing.
"You could tell?"
"Well… not personally," he admitted, letting a faint exhale escape the corners of his mind.
"But I could see and feel everything you were feeling. So I could tell something was off about her."
