Stirred

"How did we not notice these two outliers? These idiots managed to mutate!" Hiraku cursed, crushing his heavy, thick armrest with a little display of force.

"Sun Demos noticed the mutated Dragys scouts early enough," Mika pointed out, which earned him a deadly glare from all sides, "I…was just saying…"

The others shook their heads and continued the meeting.

"We cannot rely on Michael for this. He hasn't been here for a year, and if my gut feeling is not wrong, it will take another year or two before he comes back. Even if we cannot defeat the Dragys, we can use everything at our disposal to stall for some time," Lilica said, her fingers tapping anxiously on the table.

"Are you just saying we must do something, or do you have a plan?" Caesus asked straightforwardly.