An Answer But Not

Chapter 40

Subtlety was not present at all in their mission. The quietest Zarracen was throughout the mission is that one quick moment that they had walked into the slums of Oxen. Her visit to Sir Gibraltar was very conspicuous. Her movements from the moment she sent the letter watched. It comes to no surprise that she now had a roadblock in front of her. 

The glyphs upon the wall on their way out had begun to glow ominously. Coupled with that unsettling feeling that she was being watched from afar, the sight of the five soldiers in front of her is no surprise. 

"Were any of those glyphs meant to alert for intruders?" Zarracen questioned Avery quietly from her crouched position behind a pile of the dead. 

"I'm no glyph specialist and some of the glyphs appeared to be mixed," Avery answered. 

"Tch."