His name was called... that was recognition, that was bad. His stomach dropped instantly.
Only a very small number of people know Kael by name, and most of them were members of the Sun Clan. Hearing it said out loud, casually, turned the situation from "avoidance" to "entanglement." You couldn't pretend you were a random stranger once someone pulled your name out of the air.
Turning to his left, one of the green dots that was inside a building ended up being one of the guards of the Sun Clan. The man was half-hidden behind a broken window frame on the third story of a barely standing building, leaning out like a watcher on a lookout post, and the dusk made his face hard to read at first.
Kael didn't think it would be a Sun Clan member since he was alone and far from the base, but he spotted him first, and it was probably a scout for this group. That detail alone made Kael's nerves tighten; scouts didn't wander for fun. They wandered because the clan was moving.
