Standing in the sky above several buildings, Leon's eyes moved fast across the area below, a bright light cutting through them like he was looking through the city rather than at it.
Above him, the city lord and several transcendent beings watched him in silence.
Some had been rattled by the explosion earlier, still recalibrating. Others had arrived after the fact, drawn by the noise and the sonic booms, here for no reason more dignified than curiosity. But almost all of them kept their mouths shut.
Nobody wanted to be the one who said something.
Leon's companion had been kidnapped in broad daylight, under the nose of the city lord's people, and the city lord himself had unknowingly created the opening that let the kidnapper disappear. If anyone said the wrong thing right now, there was a real chance Leon simply redirected. And there was nothing worse than becoming a target for something you had nothing to do with.
So they watched. And they stayed quiet.
"Sigh."
