At the mention of their own backyards burning, the color drained completely from Evander and Kairon's faces. Without a second thought, and without uttering a single word, they turned and bolted from the City of Stoneheart.
"Were you just trying to scare them?" Seraphina asked, her gaze turning skeptical and probing once the two Demigods had vanished.
Orion let out a soft chuckle. He reached out, hooking an arm around Seraphina's slender waist, and spoke in a mild tone. "Bluffing about something like this isn't my idea of a joke."
"The reason you couldn't detect the auras of those Demigods is partly because they are deliberately masking their presence, but mostly due to the suppressive cosmic laws of this newly forged world," Orion explained. "It won't be long before you realize that our world has become a playground for dancing demons and warring gods."
Orion tilted his head up, his eyes locked onto the approaching Broodmother asteroid.
