Inheritance (20)

The elders all had bitter looks on their faces when this blue patch disappeared once more.

They knew that this wasn't a coincidence since it had happened twice already.

There was something that was making this oasis disappear and it was doing it on purpose.

Every time that they came close, it would suddenly disappear.

If they weren't waiting for them to approach before making it disappear, it wouldn't have disappeared at just the right time.

So whatever was making it happen was clearly doing it on purpose.

However, the more terrifying connotation of this was…there was someone watching them.

They didn't know how they were doing it, why they were doing it, or where they were doing it from. They just knew that there was someone watching over them right now and this wasn't a good feeling.

It was like being in a trap for ants and they were the ants.

They wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.