When Aldrich did not receive any contact from Valera, he reached out to his other Chosen: Vexa. She responded immediately.
'What's going on?' said Aldrich, tone urgent.
'I am unsure, my lord,' said Vexa apologetically.
'With an entire network of butterfly eyes, you don't know?'
'The assault went well. Valera showed tremendous force, tearing apart men left and right. My brood performed adequately as well. More so than I thought in this strange new world.'
'But what went wrong?'
'Valera's show of force brought forth their champion. A warrior woman with the visage of a feral wolf-beast. Valera used her dueling taunt upon the beast-woman, and together, they crashed through a building to fight in isolation while my brood slaughtered the lesser soldiers.'
'Adriana. The other Sword Capo.' Unlike Nico, Adriana was less careful about concealing her powers, but even then, the Trident did well in covering up any information available about her on the Net.
