508 Dismay (Ch.509)

Cassian ran a hand through his hair in frustration as he paced for a moment and then paused, fixing another stare on a blank faced King Jian.

"Jian, you know as well as I do what this means. You recognized that magic as well as I did, you know where it comes from, you know what it is..."

"And you know that everyone saw it, they will have their questions... assumptions, and knowing the dune dragons, they will not be so far from the answer." Cassian reminded.

"We have to understand it first, how a treasure we believed to be in the hands of the dark sorcerer manifested right before our eyes in a manner it never has before..."

"We held onto the believe that the dark sorcerers would not be able to activate it, or at least they will be delayed long enough for us to recover it...but all along, it was right here. And she activated it right before our eyes..." Cassian trailed off in his rant.