Inside the courtyard Leon sat flanked by Arian and Ember, staring daggers at Linda Firestone as if the beating she had just received wasn't enough.
Neither of them had said anything since landing.
The silence in the courtyard was heavy. The kind that follows a fight that didn't fully finish.
"I can understand that you just entered the transcendent stage, but I'm sure your clan should have told you at least these rules."
The city lord looked at the two of them like a man who had caught children fighting over a toy.
"What do you think would happen to the city if more transcendents started battling on a whim? Do you want to destroy my home? You children!!"
He was clearly frustrated.
Not just at them specifically. At the principle of the thing. He'd seen this before, young transcendents who got a taste of real power and immediately started swinging it around in populated areas without a single thought for what was underneath them.
He wanted to punish them.
He really did.
