All 7 of the individuals standing in front of Alex looked wary. The 5 that came to attack were one thing, but even Pearl and Whisker felt wary for some reason. They didn't understand what was going on.
"Bait?" the young man with the scornful look asked from the back where he was staying with the others.
The leader said nothing, quietly making sure that the breakthrough that was happening was Alex's. He could feel the roiling energy in the sky that everyone called the heavens. There was no doubt that he was in the middle of a breakthrough.
If he wasn't wrong about what he sensed, then it was even correct to say that the person in front of him had only begun breaking through. So he couldn't understand why it was that he chose to accept the challenge just yet.
The girls looked warily on all sides. "He's joking. There's nothing here waiting to jump on us," the one with the blue ribbons said. The quiet one slowly nodded.
