"It's about the cul– uhm.. Zealots. A few weeks back, I ran into these two kids. Brother and sister. The zealots brutally murdered their parents right in front of the brother. Luckily, the sister wasn't there, seeing as they were after her specifically.
"The kids somehow managed to escape, surviving in the streets of the slums for about the better part of a week... until Dominik and I finally found them."
Sophie didn't interrupt. Her sharp eyes remained locked onto his face, her arms crossed tightly over her chest as she listened with the quiet intensity of a guild master.
"Here's the thing... the brother, he wanted to protect his little sister from the horror of it all. So he told her this ridiculous, elaborate story that they're going on some sort of grand 'adventure.' And she bought it.
