Kaiden's attention caught for a moment on Scarlet.
She was still leaning against the corridor wall, a Nightclaw draped across her shoulder like a heavy shawl, another circling her ankles in slow, curious passes. She was watching the pack with the same idle amusement she'd shown for everything else.
A visitor. Inside his dungeon. And she would now move past the Safe Zone, past both corridors, all the way into the Verdant Expanse and the cathedral at its heart. He had never let outsiders that deep. The layout of this place was the kind of knowledge that could let a determined enemy draft a siege plan.
He looked at Vespera.
She was already meeting his eyes, composed and unconcerned. She had brought Scarlet to his dungeon herself and said nothing about securing her after. That was the only endorsement he needed. Vespera did not make security mistakes.
He let it go without a word.
"Come on!" Nyx was already tugging Scarlet by the wrist again, deeper into the dungeon.
