Lin Yi looked at the halo in his hand for a moment. Then he looked at the Greater Qilin.
"Bring her here," he said.
The qilin looked at him. Then it activated Heaven Step and was gone, reappearing at the rim, and a few seconds after that it came back down into the basin with the guardian following at the speed of something that no longer had preferences about direction or destination, only about the presence of the entity the halo identified as its anchor point.
She landed on the basin floor and stood. The one-handed form was the same as it had been when the conversion completed. Still missing the hand. Still carrying the vitality that the conversion had built from the level experience.
She looked at Lin Yi without looking at him. The eyes oriented in his direction, registered the absence of threat, and moved to a neutral waiting position. The behavioral directive had only one mode and standing near the anchor was not the mode that activated it.
"Mount the qilin," Lin Yi said.
