"… and there are over a hundred missing recruits from this district tagging along at the back of the caravan."
If Leynel's mere presence was enough to force a gate guards' officer out of his shed, then this single sentence was all it took to completely stun the man.
"A hundred of…" he gulped his saliva down. "Wait, missing recruits?!"
The message took a moment to sink in. The guard then looked around, searching for something that would help him weather the mental storm that Leynel brought on him.
And so, his eyes laid down on Leon and Sarah.
The girl looked all sorts of guilty and nervous, the prime example of someone who felt extremely out of her place. Yet…
All there was no see on Leon's face, was a small, confident smirk. As if the entire situation didn't bother him in the slightest.
