There was something more than what met the eye.
At home, Vivian was only a nanny and a cook—she was a food magician who enjoyed life, and she was good-tempered, gentle, considerate, as well as peace-loving; her fights with Lily notwithstanding. But these qualities did not affect her discernibility as an Ancient. She had lived for 10,000 years and seen all the changes on this planet. Even though she had the debuff of memory leakage, she still possessed extraordinary sensitivity and wisdom. That was why she only had to take a glance at the situation in the square to guess that someone else was behind the fracas.
The mastermind was not the emerging families who were zealous about getting out of the sanctuary but some oldbie in the meeting hall.
Well, the last part of the above sentence was purely an adage and had nothing to do with Lily, who had been a dog for 6,000 years.
