Chapter 511 - 504. Eye of The Storm
"Welcome back," Zein welcomed Bassena back with wide arms and a kiss two days later. He had fun watching the fight captured by the Tower’s camera from the command center, which honestly, looked rather easy for the seasoned hunters.
Bassena received the kiss and the hug with a wide grin and an arched brow. "Feels like newlyweds."
"Take it as practice," Zein shrugged, and Bassena raised his arched brow higher.
He tilted his head and narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "You’re going to ask for something reckless, do you?"
"Maybe?"
Bassena glanced at the two hovering lights behind the guide that had been following Zein while buzzing like excited children. Or anxious ones. It was the first time they came down to move along with Zein, and Bassena could feel it wasn’t just for a change of pace.
"Where?" he sighed. "We can’t travel the river yet. I still have to put on a proposal for Radia."
"I know," Zein gestured with his chin and walked away from the stadium. "I just got fed up waiting for a path through the underground tunnel, so I thought we could just go through the surface."
It had been almost a year since they found the underground system, and still, they hadn’t found any exit toward the other side of the desert. It wasn’t the scout’s fault, of course. The system was just too vast and confusing; it was as wide as Althrea and they no longer had a compass to point the way for them.
Radia did say all those things about marathons, but
Again, Bassena glanced at the shards, which were already warming up to him instead of being afraid--after all, he was the ’guardian’. They did not reject him in their proximity, unlike with other humans.