I had never been the patient type, and, although I didn’t know what I was supposed to do—or not—in this huge house, I decided to explore the estate.
After Macey left to join her brother and Malcolm in another wing of the house—after Koran left to find Erwan and Nomely—and after grumbling that we should rather stay wisely in the room and wait for Cahl to return, Mallok followed me out of the room, anger in his eyes.
It was really something to travel with Mallok as a four-legged companion. Again, because nothing in his way of walking resembled an animal, but this came down to the simple detail of his gigantic size and his frightening monster head.
“You didn’t have to come,” I said, not out of politeness, but out of curiosity.
Again, for any answer, he just sneezed.
“Do you feel differen
