She listened for two seconds, and the first real relief since the sky had opened crossed her face. "Yes. Thank you."
While Grace fought two chains of command at once, Kaiden glanced back at his girls and let the edge of a smirk return to his mouth.
"Guess I'll really need that biological test to prove I'm still human."
Luna stared at him.
The girls knew the story. He'd told them what happened at the level fifty bottleneck, how the Original Sin had made him prove he deserved to wield the sins as stances instead of being consumed by them.
Hearing about that trial from Kaiden, after he had already survived it and turned the experience into another absurd piece of his life, had been one thing.
Watching the owner of that judgment cross the sky with seven arms behind the planet was another thing entirely.
The gamer girl had gone sweaty at the temples, pale beneath the adrenaline, and for once the profanity had to climb over genuine existential terror before it found the exit.
