Chapter 83 - Seventy-Nine (1/2)

After Seiroe left us alone once more I sit beside Leonel, receiving an inquisitive look from him.

”What?”

”What was that? You were fine with the kid before…”

”You mean Seiroe?” He nods. I quickly look behind me, giving a little peek at my surroundings with my third eyes, and making sure we were all alone as I whisper to Leonel:

”I don't trust him. Actually, I don't trust any of them except maybe Aeglos and Ragnur.”

”Why so?”

”Don't you find it strange? The so-called safe hidden place, with such powerful magic protecting it, to be discovered and break down so easily?”

”Wait, don't you mean that…” I nod, both of us carrying a very heavy serious expression.

”Yes, there is a traitor among us.” When you think about it, it makes sense, otherwise how could they have planned such a trap and kidnapping plan with such a high degree of success? How did they know where to attack, and who to kidnap?

That seemed slightest suspicious to say the least…

At that Leonel narrows his eyes, the same line of thought passing through his mind as he looks at me than towards the building.

”And yet you send him to such an important mission. Why?”

”Because I'm not sure who betrayed us.” Nor if there was really a betrayed at all, but I did not live for this long trusting strangers blindly. ”Plus if they really are a spy they will want to keep us believing in their facade, so they are due to go out and ”help” us, and right now we can't afford to refuse it.”

That's right, what we need is to get moving and get information out of this mysterious puppeteer, we could not fight against someone we did not even know of.

And those creatures that he used… were quite peculiar, similar in some way to the ones the necromancer used, and yet no usual or common so there was bound to have some information about it too.

And I knew the best place to look for that.

Since Isaac and the Templar were already looking after the sick and had their hands full I pull Leonel up by the hand and bring him to a more secluded place.

He follows without asking, making me a little happy that we were getting this close, not needing words to convey that we wanted.

I liked that.

I just could not enjoy it at the moment.

After we get into the woods and farther from the house I see that there are signs of destruction everywhere, including my own scratch marks.

We will need to leave this place soon.

”Ok… so…” I start to put my thoughts in order while speaking. ”Let's see what we need to do… search who attacked us, of course, find out why Aeglos is not waking up, find out why they attacked us, and keep up with building our free nation too.”

Leonel frowns, not understanding the last part, saying: