Kaleth and the others are finally ready to face Enor and end the war once and for all. But being ready for it and actually managing to do so are two different things. And with Enor having tens of thousands of soldiers following every one of his comm...
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Kaleth was being weird. Rayni couldn't put her finger on what it was, but there was something off. He was more bitchy than usual. Not to Mel, but to everyone else. Which Rayni would just assume was due to having a bad day or something, but Mereria was being weird about it too. She kept giving Rayni these looks, as if to say watch him. But so far Kaleth hadn't actually done much that would warrant it. He'd mostly just been cutesy with Mel.
Although maybe that was cause for concern, now that she thought about it, given Kaleth's usual embarrassment when it came to showing any emotion other than anger or sarcastic amusement.
"There is no need to bring anyone else along," Kaleth said for at least the third time. Rayni sighed.
"Look, I don't care how strong you are. That doesn't mean you can't have some backup."
Before Kaleth could argue back, and Rayni had no doubts that he would have given the option, Mereria cut in. No, wait, actually this was Edras. It still messed with Rayni's head.
"No worries, Rayni. The four of us will be enough."
Rayni watched her stroll to the window, staring down at the planet below them. That was still such a weird thing to see in real life, but Rayni had managed not to gawk for longer periods of time now. They had brought the ship to orbit a while ago, and she'd been here when it had happened.
Their planet was still a gorgeous view though. Blue, green, and red, shining with the sun's light.
"It's obviously a trap, though." They had gotten a place from one of the Eternals they had managed to capture already, which was suspicious by itself. Sure, it didn't have to be a trap, but this person had been prepared to kill for her freedom. Why would she just easily turn on her group like this?
And for a group that had formed only days ago, they already had a shocking amount of members from what Rayni could tell. There had been dozens of attacks reported, some on completely unrelated, normal people, too.
"We're much more skilled than them," Kaleth said, somehow sounding even more confident than ever before. Almost dismissive, in fact. "Not to mention much more powerful."
"Some of these are ex-Luxarx."
That actually got him to raise his eyebrows in surprise. "Really?" He hummed before waving his hand. "Well, my point still stands. Mereria is one of the strongest Eternals alive, also."
Yeah, Rayni knew she was probably being too cautious, but the problem was that Kaleth wasn't being cautious at all. And Mel was thinking as much too if his worried frowns were anything to go by. Rayni wondered if they were actually talking inside their heads, but there was no way for her to pick up on it anymore, with the metal device Yorin had given her stuck to her temple.
Rayni still wasn't entirely sure what the device did, but it seemed to weaken her telepathic abilities considerably enough to make the noise of thoughts go away. But it also meant that it effectively made her telepathy useless. But Rayni wasn't going to complain.
