"Gwen?!" Ryan exclaimed, feet moving forward to go closer, to make sure he wasn't hallucinating.
The woman's eyes also sparkled at the sight of him. "Ryan," she said, though she couldn't move up, because her cats were resting contentedly on her lap.
Someone behind Ryan cleared his throat and only then did the woman's eyes separate from him. She blinked. "Brother Orz?"
As for the others, she didn't recognize them, so she only nodded politely.
Ryan's feet stopped a step away from Gwen and he couldn't speak for a while.
Gwen was someone they met during a mission in a foreign land. They met about a year ago, not too long before they were deployed in the mission that brought them here.
She was a tourist and they were undercover customers in the hotel. It was just that she had recognized them as soldiers—something about her brother being one—and saw that they were hunting a bad guy.
