Chapter 473: Knick Knack
“There we go,” Alanah said as she stopped in mid-air and pointed toward the shore.
“What is it?” Derek asked.
“We’ve technically crossed over into Vorandell,” the siren answered.
“How do you know?” Derek asked. He looked toward the shore and squinted to see better.
“If you look closely, you can see the shape of those cliffs,” Alanah said before pulling out her out-of-date map. “At least some things haven’t changed.”
“Oh,” Derek muttered, then looked from the map to the shore a couple of times. “I think I see it. There are also…”
“The outposts?” Alanah chuckled. “Yeah, that’s the other dead giveaway. There are two of them, and they are close together. Even without being able to see the people or colors in them, you would know that there is no sense for two outposts being built side by side.”
“Yeah… unless it was two separate kingdoms that made them.” Honestly, it was all quite blurry for Derek at their current distance away from the land, so he didn’t see anything other than vague shapes of possible outposts and cliffs. But what Alanah was saying made perfect sense to him. If one kingdom decided to build an outpost close to the border with another country, then the other country was sure to build one of their own just as close. Even for allied kingdoms, this would probably be true—whether it was to not look weak, just to keep an eye on the other country, or for dozens of other reasons.
“So, what’s the plan from here?” Derek asked.