Chapter 456: The Dawn Before the Dusk
A knock rang in Sabina’s study room. She glanced up from her desk and stared at the door pensively. “...Come in,” she said after a moment.
The door creaked open and the source of her worries stepped inside.
“You wanted to see me, Mother Elect?” Stryg asked tentatively.
Getting a closer look at him, Sabina noted he wasn’t a particularly imposing figure. He was taller than other Sylvans, but so were dire goblins, and unlike them, Stryg wasn’t covered in rippling muscles. He had a lithe body, wiry almost, with a hint of toned muscles peeking from underneath his shirt.
His lilac irises were peculiar and though his pupils were the familiar vertical slits of goblin-kin, his eyes did not react to the light in the room like others. Something was slightly off, it reminded her of that man who had visited two decades ago. Perhaps the goblin in front of her had inherited more of his side than the mother’s.
Such a thought didn’t bode well for her hopes and plans.
“Mother Elect…?”
Sabina looked up from her thoughts. “You came.”
“You asked me to.”