Lani sat on the bed, exhausted from the day's work.
Well, it wasn't exactly work—they had just been roaming the market. But even that turned out to be more tiring than expected, mostly because of an unexpected encounter with the Lord Commander.
He wasn't scary in the usual way, but his presence was enough to make anyone nervous.
And Lani, in her excitement, had treated him like a lost child she was showing around the market.
"Will he do something to me? Will he be angry with me?" she kept asking Felix.
Felix and Renald just sat on their chairs, not knowing what to say. They were surprised too. It wasn't every day that the Lord Commander casually visited the market with them.
Renald had just leaned back when his device rang. Every soldier had one—it was used to send mission updates and orders. The notification blinked on the screen: