Paranoid Or Cautious?
Hal's timing could not have been better, especially since right at the moment Pietro's fist was closing around thin air, the Kruger family Array was also activated.
The whole Estate was enclosed in an Array dome of swimming runes but none of that mattered to Pietro whose frown got deeper and it took all he had not to yell at the sky in frustration.
While he was still rooted to the spot with his fist clenched, Brian and Xerx joined him while Cirk was not too far behind and had the deformed Ergo on his shoulder.
"Where is he?" Brian asked and Pietro turned his head to look at him and the look in his very annoyed eyes struck fear into the heart of the Kruger Patriarch and for a split second, he thought he saw a shadow of something monstrous and immense behind Pietro.
"He's gone" Pietro eventually said and lowered his hand before turning away from the frightened Kruger Patriarch and to Cirk,