Chapter 68: More Mithril
"Something the matter, Lord Edmond?" A voice came from inside the room.
Edmond Black stood over the door, experiencing a tingling sensation from an unexpected soft breeze. That could have been Vivian’s umbrella when she deployed it; without it, Edmond would be meeting her eye to eye right now.
He looked right and then to the left again but couldn’t detect anything out of order so he looked back inside.
"What is it?" A voice asked from inside the room he was blocking its doorway.
"Just felt a presence... not sure." He replied and the sound of footsteps came from inside heading towards him but just at that second...
Squeak!
Then... a sound came just behind Vivian’s ears and Edmond looked towards the direction again.
"It’s just a rat, Lord Edmond." A third voice then spoke.
"It seems so." Edmond nodded and kept watching the place for a second before returning to the room and closing the door.
Vivian had the coldest of shivers running through her bones but thanks to Voros’ clever thinking and timely squeak, he compelled Edmond to think it was a rat.
Vivian and Voros quietly moved away from the door immediately and rather than escaping, Vivian stopped at the next-door room and went inside with Voros quietly. She looked inside the room, carefully picked a cup from a nearby tray, placed its base against the wall, and put her ear on it.