Mallory started to agree, her lips curving into a smile instead, her hand resting on her satchel.
“You have a plan?” Ryan asked.
Mallory nodded. “Sleeping mist.”
Ryan took out the roughly drawn map of the village. “Okay. We search the place and meet back here.” He pointed to a spot just outside and to the left of the path. “Try and stay out of sight. There are approximately twenty-five enemies left in Velkden.”
“What if we’re spotted?” Danae asked. “What do we do?”
“Fight if you can do so without alerting the entire village or retreat if you can’t,” Ryan said.
“Then they’ll know where we’re going to meet up,” Emica said.
“Maybe we should leave someone as lookout to take out any of the enemies that follow if we need to retreat,” Danae suggested.
“It’d have to be either Danni or Cal
