The Gathering (5)

Half an hour passed as Jian Na sat quietly, hidden inside of the shrubbery, while trying to think of her next move. She remembered they had practiced similar scenarios with Kai during the last few weeks and understood that she had to meet up with the others for their collective safety.

'But how am I going to find them?...,' Jian Na thought to herself when she suddenly heard the sound of multiple footsteps trudging through the sludge.

"Ugh, why does it have to be a swamp!" said an annoyed female voice.

"Senior Sister, we should count ourselves lucky. Were it not a swamp, then Senior brother Kang would not have been able to gather us all so quickly", came an amiable young man's voice next.

"Bah, Kang's technique is not so special. He found us because of the signatures that the master imprinted into our bracelets. Were it not for that...Ughh, this place stinks!" repeated the annoyed woman.