Three of them exited the enclosed wall through the path the officer had indicated. Seraphine walked in silence, her thoughts turning over the evening's events. Despite Loriel's immature behavior—which sometimes made her want to smack the girl—she had to acknowledge that Loriel wasn't entirely useless.
She did lead us to the middle domain, Seraphine admitted internally. Without her navigation, we would have taken longer to arrive.
Not that they couldn't have managed it themselves. Seraphine was confident they would have reached the middle domain eventually—after all, no monster in that mist had posed a real challenge to either her or Leon. The fog creatures had been little more than training dummies, dispatched with casual ease.
But Loriel had saved them time. That was worth something.
