"Please cease your steps, Clan Leader!"
Hu Lijing froze, his right foot suspended in the air, unable to touch the floor. Tension seeped into his muscles as he looked in through the open doors of the shrine, the smoke of incense blurring everything within his line of sight.
He didn't move an inch, not daring to even make a single muscle twitch was his foot hung on the threshold separating the shrine from the outside world.
"Priestess?" He called out, voice soft, concern lacing the singular word as a frown decorated his handsome visage framed by his amber locks. "Is something the matter?" He asked, glancing inside the shrine of their god.
"Please, step back." The priestess shook her head, hand held up to him.
Without protesting, Hu Lijing nodded and retracted his foot, not finding it in himself the courage to slight the god residing in the shrine.
