"Apologies, honored elders and father. But I have to recall this particular puppet to deal with the ongoing crisis in the back of the caravan," the Razor Maiden puppet (Razorstella) informed the group in Zhen Liu's voice.
"Crisis?"
Zhen Shi and the three Grandmaster elders looked a touch confused at the puppet's statement, granted they were occupied with fighting a giant dragon otter that spat lightning on the regular at the moment, so it was understandable that they wouldn't have notice anything outside of that.
In fact, the only reason why the four of them could have this brief conversation in the first place was due to Zhen Liu's jade puppet(Nepherage) and frog woman puppet (Hurricroak) keeping the Thunderscale Dragon Otter busy for the time being.
As such, the four of them proceeded to do a quick sweep with their aether in the surrounding area and immediately understood the situation.
It wasn't necessarily good.