Third Person's POV
This old tracker was hiding something from all of them, and it was definitely something extremely dangerous.
And whatever scheme he had already set into motion, it had not ended yet.
That realization caused the armored aura master to grow even more alert toward every future mishap that might arise next, and what would be the hidden goal of this old man in all that.
Meanwhile, Arlene had nearly forgotten the paranoia and caution awakened earlier by her aunt's secret warning.
The sudden wolf ambush, the desperate battle, the terrifying power of Ice Burial, and the exhaustion of survival had all washed over her mind like a violent tide and pushed those earlier suspicions into a dim and neglected corner of her thoughts where they now lingered faintly, almost forgotten.
