I stepped back onto the crystal pathway and returned toward the old man, the drifting galaxies of the treasury slowly moving around me while the three selected treasures rested quietly within my soul space. The moment I crossed back onto the central platform, Knight immediately looked toward me.
"Well?" he asked.
"You look alive," Lyrate added. "So I assume you didn't pick something suicidal."
"Only partially suicidal," I replied.
Knight nodded seriously. "Reasonable."
The old man simply watched me with the same calm smile as before, his dark green eyes locking briefly on me before drifting toward the treasury behind.
For a moment I remained silent, recalling the conversation I had back before entering Oriel. I had been waiting for an opportunity when I will be away from my system's influence.
"Billion… are you really going to trust him? What if it's not what he says it is?" North had asked me.
