Dancing With Monsters

[Monster?]

[That's how you call those you play friends with?]

Elisa stared sternly.

Mark turned towards the other newcomer, Elisa's guide.

'You made it. Knew it wouldn't be too hard for you.'

A returnee. That's how the guide thought of itself after the Quest it had gone through.

The Moonlit Feline, drained and fatigued from that Quest, lay on the ground.

Without reacting, it closed its eyes.

"I was in the tower. That's where she found me."

[Right.]

[That's where I told her you would be.]

"I was in the tower."

Mark didn't understand what Elisa was getting at.

[So?]

"The area around it was different."

A chill went down Mark's body.

He stayed silent.

"Why did you bring me here?"

Mark took a couple of seconds before answering.

He stood up.

[To see you fight.]