After checking the location and realizing that it wasn't too far away, I draped the djinn magician's jacket on Astrid to conceal her appearance.
To any normal passerby, we would look like two homeless teenagers as both our clothes were torn and our faces were riddled with bruises.
After another minute of walking, I heard Astrid grumbling from my back.
"How long till we get there?"
"You know that's supposed to be my line."
After that, Astrid surprisingly stayed silent, seemingly contemplating something. Not wanting to ruin the short silence, I recalled the previous events, and countless questions immediately popped into my head.
Did this incident originally happen in the story? If so, then who saved Astrid initially?
No... an event involving a named character like Astrid would definitely be in the book, so this happened because of either my or Lily's intervention.
