"Ruler?" Ron looked into her serious eyes and believed her a little.
"The sovereign of our land," Xia Yue explained.
"The King, huh," Ron said.
"Exactly, but we call him the Emperor where we come from. We thought you referred to him as 'ruler' here," Xia Yue said with a smile.
"I don't know where Odeli is, but I've heard he was recently in Hera City; you could try asking around there," Ron hesitated before telling them.
"Thank you for the clue," Xia Yue said gratefully.
"Don't mention it, off you go," said Ron, hurrying them along.
"Then goodbye, may we meet again if fate wills it," Xia Yue and her group didn't linger and promptly departed.
Watching until they became a speck in the distance, Ron finally breathed a sigh of relief, took a stone out, whispered a message to it, and put the stone away.
Meanwhile, the distant group with Xia Yue.
