"Hmm? Oh, probably." She offered me a playful smile. "I was just planning on walking through the woods a bit. Being the Life Hero, you know? "
"But the demons–"
She waved me away. "I'll be fine. They all bear your mark, right?"
"Yes, but…"
I trailed off, not quite sure how to verbalize what I felt. R'lissea had never wandered off on her own. She'd even gone through the trouble of getting dressed. Was she planning to leave us?
Something flickered through her eyes, but the starlight was too dim for me to read her expression. Her face noticeably softened, however, and she let out a small sigh. She came back up a few steps.
"Xiviyah, sometimes, you can't walk another path without leaving the one you're on. That's what makes secrets, betrayal, and mysteries so interesting. They convince us we, or maybe someone else, are on a different path than we thought. It's kind of exciting, isn't it?"
"Maybe scary," I said.
