Chapter 483: Prenatal Magic
Kim understood the reasons Jonas had for making them wait. It was perfectly reasonable, but it still meant that they were left with staying where they were and letting time pass by without moving.
Even if Sonya scouted their location, there wasn’t any reason to think that they wouldn’t change periodically. With Thomas’ Blynx, they could easily move to somewhere else without leaving tracks that could be followed. Which was also assuming that they were even laying in wait at this moment in the first place.
For Kim, even with the valid reasons Jonas had given, this was a complete waste of their time. Time that could have been better spent by continuing on towards the dungeon.
Even if Stanley’s group got the drop on them, Kim was confident that they’d likely go for the fighters first. As that would reduce their ability to fight them off after that. As Stanley certainly didn’t have the numbers, or sheer resilience, to go after their healers first. Which meant Elin would be safe from the initial attack. As one of the mistakes she’d made with Harold was thinking that he was like the others in Stanley’s group.
She wasn’t sure what had led to Rachel Plum’s death, but she was confident that it either occurred because of a mistake Harold had made in whatever they were fighting at the time or because it was just that much stronger, and Harold had to spend more effort to take it down than he had otherwise expected to. Or it could have been some other reason altogether that made her thinking about this pointless.
Kim sighed, trying to get her temper under control.
One reason she’d been insistent on moving as quickly as they could was because she wasn’t good at handling down time in the best of times when there wasn’t a credible threat to herself and those she cared about. While she had her doubts as to what Stanley and his group might actually do if they had a confrontation, she would rather move as quickly as they could to avoid such an outcome.
Yet, she had worked alone by herself in the past largely because she didn’t consider herself any good at forming arguments to get others to come over to her way of thinking. Often she would get into an argument with the others and that would be the end of things. Yet here, while it wasn’t like that, she felt that this situation was too delicate to leave to chance like that. That if they let this chance go by that they’d likely end up making it harder to complete.
In all, she felt the situation was too important to leave to chance and her ability to convince the others about her reasons. Maybe she shouldn’t worry about that, considering everything that they’d all been through, but she couldn’t help but worry that if she failed in convincing the others, then anything that she might suggest later on would be tainted with that argument. Where she’d have less influence later on if something happened that made it necessary for her to say something then.
Or maybe she was just overthinking things and worrying over nothing.