"We've been going in circles, are you sure we are on the right track?" Katherine asked as she followed Rio, watching him chug one potion after another before speeding off again.
He moved with an almost reckless urgency, cutting through the trees and monsters in their path without so much as a pause. She could see the exhaustion etched into his frame—the slight tremble in his hands, and the way sweat trickled his forehead—yet he refused to stop, not even to catch his breath.
It was like he was in a hurry to reach somewhere, but like a couple of times before, he still didn't explain or answer her when she asked something.
'Is the quest from Nyx really that important?' She couldn't help but doubt and look over her shoulder, in a direction where she always felt someone was watching their every move.