Chapter 58: Spymaster
It was the last afternoon before they planned on leaving for the sixth floor when there was a knock at their door, the first they had heard since they got there.
“Huh.” Tulland looked up from the ground, where they had been playing a game of stones with actual stones they had harvested from the river. “Think we should answer that?”
“Probably. Right now, we have every system protection we’ll ever get,” Necia said. “Can’t get better than that.”
“And if it’s a danger, we’d be better off knowing about it. Fine.” Tulland struggled to his feet. “I was losing anyway.”
Tulland cracked open the door to see a very small, very nervous looking hooded man standing there, glancing left and right as he nervously clasped a package to his chest.
“Hello? How can I help you?” Tulland asked.
The man noticed the door was open then, and looked directly through it and through Tulland like he wasn’t even there.
“I… If you are there, princess, I can’t see you. There’s some kind of enchantment on this place.”
“Oh, for the love of the sun. Fine.” Tulland stuck out his arm, put it on the man’s shoulder, and pushed him gently out of the way before exiting the privacy protections of his house.