Chapter 126: Priorities In Order
Yooa became the bearer of bad news as he returned to his tribe. Their past sins were haunting them even now. Their sins weren’t that far in the past, though, so it wasn’t strange.
Nick looked at the slumped shoulders of the young man as Yooa left. He pitied the young man who probably had no power over his tribe’s actions but still had to suffer for them. But Nick wasn’t going to unnecessarily meddle in a conflict he didn’t understand.
He turned to Eo, who had joined him on the porch now that Yooa had left.
"Now that you’re in human form, can you leave the house?" He asked, setting Yooa’s troubles aside and focusing on the important matters.
Eo leaned against the doorframe with crossed arms. She nodded once.
"I can, technically. But the reason I couldn’t do so before wasn’t because I couldn’t reach. It’s because I had to make the house a part of me to take it along and to make it work with power crystals."
"What...?" Nick tilted his head, confused.
Eo glanced at him before joining him on the stairs.
"Think of it like a prosthetic leg or an exoskeleton or something. But it’s rooted in the ground."
Nick’s eyes narrowed as he scanned Eo up and down. It didn’t look like it was connected.
Eo could tell what Nick was thinking.