The sun had dipped lower in the sky by the time Alex and Elyra returned to the main village.
There were blood drops and splashes on their clothes from the fight with the demonic creature. That was why the villagers, who always looked at them with happy smiles, were looking at them with curious expressions.
Yes, curious.
They didn't seem scared or panicked.
'I knew it would be like this,' Alex nodded to himself.
Both he and Elyra were the focus of the villagers right now, but even with the fact that one person almost died to a demonic creature and that they had just killed that creature, the villagers didn't seem interested in that.
They seemed to be interested in something else.
"Are they headed to the elders' abode?"
"Seems like it."
"What could they want from the elders?"
This is what they whispered among themselves, wondering why Alex and Elyra wanted to meet the elders.