87 Divinis [I]

"Eh, you. Over here."

Slowly, Ju Feng turned towards the direction of the voice in apprehension. But he couldn't find who was making the utterances. He knew he heard someone's voice, calling to him. And the voice sounded very close. Looking at the direction more closely, he could only a plain of snow and ice. High on alert and with his mind firmly on the safe-word, he called out.

"Who's there?"

He strained his eyes in his attempt to detect the exact location of the voice when he remembered he was actually a premier and could use his spiritual sight. Quickly, he switched to his spiritual sight and discovered that the whole area to his front was devoid of any living entity. Every direction on the open plain was of the view of the falling snow and snow-filled ground. The whole area was giving off the normal ice auric light, except for one particular thing.

A single small grey tree.