Five days later…
Eofel.
"Enough sulking. Whatever he faced must have still gone according to plan. You know how Actuass was, Fulina," Cyne said with a frown. He glared into the back of Fulina's head, and was sure she could feel his piercing stare, but she remained sitting against the wall, her head buried between her knees.
She had been like this since Rearren had come to Eofel with news of Actuass' passing.
Frankly, the news had taken Cyne a few hours to process and even now, he still found it hard to believe, but he wasn't going to spend a whole week mourning as Fulina seemed fully committed to doing.
Before Actuass embarked on his journey to Edagon, he had told him and Fulina, his two right hand people, to ensure that they claimed a territory in Pelian in case what Guissepo had done completely cleared the country, leaving no space for him to work when he returned.
