Vanessa pulled her lips back, her eyes wide.
'That was my first…' she thought, her heart pounding as a faint blush crept over her cheeks.
She would never tell him that, of course.
Better to keep her composure, act as if it were nothing.
She straightened her back quickly, smoothing her expression into calm.
"Are you okay?" she asked, trying to sound casual.
Lucius sighed, rubbing the corner of his mouth as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
"You know, even if that arrow hit me, it wouldn't have mattered. It wouldn't even scratch me."
He pointed ahead, and Vanessa's eyes followed.
She blinked in surprise.
Countless arrows were suspended midair, frozen in distorted space just inches from where Lucius had been standing.
They hung there, trembling faintly, as though reality itself held its breath.
Her cheeks heated further.
