Meanwhile, Elise followed closely behind the group, her boots crunching softly against the uneven ground of the dungeon floor. The flickering light from their torches cast shifting shadows along the walls, stretching and shrinking with every step they took.
Her hands tightened, knuckles paling, not from fear but from frustration. She wished she could do more than just trail behind them, acting as the team's safety net for injuries. Watching Sun, Jae, and Ryn take the lead in battle again and again lit something inside her, a mixture of admiration and a pang of dissatisfaction.
She exhaled slowly and lowered her gaze to her boots as she walked
It wasn't as if she hadn't started working toward fixing that problem. The fighting style she had discovered the other day still burned vividly in her mind, each page of that book etched into her thoughts.
