Duplicate Order

Within five minutes, all of the youngsters had managed to follow the instructions and enter the Relic's separate space. Now all that was left was the waiting.

Karl was just getting comfortable when another portal opened, and Rae used [Shadow Step] to go greet their visitors.

"Ah, monster!" The woman on the other side of the portal screamed.

No, Karl realized half a second later. That was a man with an exceptionally high-pitched screaming voice. Because the woman who stepped through looked disgusted with his cowardice.

"Princess. Are you the leader of this team? I have been sent by the Staptonbia Tower to negotiate access to the Relic." She announced.

Rae smiled at her, a gleaming crescent of serrated teeth.

"No, my Karl is the leader here. But I could have sworn that we already had your person here." Rae replied, confused by the way that the humans were using the same name twice.