Village in Peril

{Are you sure you're alright, Ryker?} Bestie also spoke up worriedly.

'Well, okay, I might be a little shook.'

Ryker forcefully exhaled, trying to get a grip on himself. Now that his anger over them targeting a defenseless young child had passed, he was starting to feel the realization that he had just killed a person setting in.

'No worries. Let's deal with this first, and I can reflect on what happened, later,' he thought, more for his own benefit than Mini C's or Bestie's. Neither of them pursued the topic, any further, as he looked back down at the boy in his arms and spoke.

"Hey, don't think I caught your name, kid."

The little boy looked back up at him, his gray eyes wide as saucers as he mustered up the spirit to speak.

"... Zhao Gui," he finally answered, looking forward, once more.

"Well, Lil' Gui, looks like we're getting close..."