"Miss Galina even doubted whether I was actually a man," Shard explained with a smirk as he stood at the entrance ramp to the bridge, searching the river's surface for those occasional red halos.
"It's quite funny, the Deity himself acknowledged that I am indeed a man."
"That's good to hear," Luviya responded, barely suppressing her laughter.
After entering the Lower District in the northern part of the city, Daknis had stopped swimming at the riverbed's bottom and instead moved swiftly near the water's surface. When he finally chose to come ashore to avoid being detected by the church, he used the Dark Vortex to transition directly from the water to the land.
With no water flow to obscure his vision anymore, he could easily discern the direction of the blood red halos this time.
