Xin went in alone.
"Absolutely not," Mei said.
"The presence at the convergence point communicated deliberately. It wants to talk, not fight." He looked at her directly. "If I bring six people into a building full of cultivators who just lost their suppression field, someone makes a bad decision and it becomes a fight." He met her eyes. "I go alone."
"The guild master is in there."
"I know."
"His cultivators—"
"Cannot access their channels. Yara disrupted the secondary feeds. They have training and weapons but no cultivation support." He looked at Lian. "How long before they restore the secondary lines?"
"Twenty minutes. Maybe thirty."
"I will be done in twenty." He dismounted. "Mei. If I am not out in twenty minutes, do whatever you think is right."
She looked at him.
"That is n
