Chapter 15: Insight
The rest of the meal was rather uneventful, aside from deciding when each of them will train they were mostly silent.
After finishing their food the party excused themselves and went back to their accommodations. It was already quite late, so they simply entered their rooms without any discussions.
Calen wasn’t particularly tired though, so after pacing around his room he went onto the balcony to get some fresh air. Predictably, Isara was already there.
They stood there for a bit, side by side and propped on the railing, watching the slumbering city.
"I think this place has some sort of a problem." Isara said quietly.
"What do you mean?"
"Don’t you think they were a little too quick to offer us a long term stay? The biggest human settlement is only a few days journey from here, and they admitted it has someone much more powerful than they are. Why keep us here instead of sending us there if they don’t have an ulterior motive?"
"You’re saying they’re conspiring against us?"
Isara shook her head.
"I wouldn’t go that far. I’m guessing they have an issue we might be able to resolve, but it’s too delicate to bring it up right away."
Calen thought about it for a moment.
"I can ask Elder Lydia tomorrow, she seems like a no-nonsense kind of woman. Speaking of which, what’s your impression of the Elders?"