More than one way to sneak
'Okay, I swear I sensed someone on the other side of this thing,' Zhen Hou thought to himself as he stood in the doorway of his room and stared up and down the hotel hallway. Out of curiosity, he even used his aether to sweep through the area but found nothing of interest or notice.
'Was it just my imagination?,' Zhen Hou thought to himself as he retracted his aether.
For the past few hours or so, Zhen Hou has been laying in bed beside his wife, wide awake as his mind raced with several dozen scenarios that could occur when they finally meet with the main branch tomorrow.
At least half of those scenarios consisted of the possibility of someone in the family dying due to a misperceived slight, or his father Zhen Hai getting horribly injured. The other half were slightly more positive, but still had some price to be paid.