Ch. 102: Fragile Masks
I didn't want to linger at Talos' place for too long. Every minute spent here was one more tick of the clock toward chaos, a chaos I knew was coming. Time was always against me. I had bigger tasks— forming the alliance in time before the storm broke loose. But still, I found myself hesitating, watching Talos more closely than before. Something had shifted in her and I could not help but feel threatened by it.
And also the futures that the otherworlder Hermes saw, I did not want her becoming something I could not control. And the fact that she killed me in the future, I had no knowledge of Talos having any combat potential as of this moment but her brain was still just as deadly as any weapon.
