"I smell mummy,"
This alerted all of them, and I froze in place. She just had to carry me and Noah's sharp senses, didn't she?
I felt I could still slip away since no one had caught me yet, but little Sora and Kaelen were already crawling towards my hiding spot.
"Mama, mama," Sora pointed,
Gosh, these kids.
I squeezed my eyes shut, a heavy, long-suffering sigh whistling through my teeth.
But it was too late for me to escape. Kaelen and Sora were crawling my way.
Trapped by a pair of ankle-biters. I had survived a bone-crushing fall off a cliff in another dimension, outsmarted feral beastmen chieftains, and negotiated trade treaties that brought entire tribal territories to their knees.
But right now, my grand imperial escape was being completely thwarted by two chunky one-year-olds on all fours.
