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B3 Chapter 2: Loyalty Crisis
Amber gave Carlos a light squeeze with the arm she had wrapped around him and snorted a laugh. Sotis, he asked questions that seed astoundingly incongruous with the sophisticated knowledge he so often displayed, and she never knew when it might happen. She didn't mind, though; it was endearing, and getting to explain sothing to him instead of the other way around always gave her a bit of a thrill. "Surely you understand that we have to assu that he can still follow us, right? If we don't and we're wrong, it will be a catastrophe when he catches us unprepared."
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Carlos spluttered for a mont. Amber wished she could see his face just then, but that would require moving her head off of his shoulder, and she didn't want to do that. It was a short-lived opportunity, anyway, as Carlos recovered quickly. "Well, yeah. I was just– Never mind. What matters is what to do next."
Amber nodded. She had been combing through the branching tree of foreseeable possibilities with several of her minds ever since they had escaped the throne room. "Caution demands that we assu failure, but that is not sustainable. We can't live the rest of our lives endlessly fleeing an enemy that we constantly speculate might be one step behind. We must at so point conclusively determine that we have escaped imdiate pursuit. Unfortunately, trying to scry on any pursuit efforts would provide a connection they could use to find us. The only way to actually find out if that broke our trail, without giving them a new trail in the process, is to wait and see if he shows up. So, we should prepare as best we can for that. Let's start with getting a bit of distance so that we'll have more ti to react."
She looked around at their new surroundings. They should be roughly 100 miles from the wellspring, in a random direction outward, away from Kalor Kingdom, but that ant nothing to her. Maps of the Wilds were always spotty, focused on specific points of interest, or sparse on details, especially for the deep Wilds, far from civilization. They were sowhere in the foothills of a tall mountain range, with nurous snowy peaks in the distance. The thick tangle of vegetation she'd grown accustod to in the Wilds was much thinner here, with trees only grouped in isolated clusters, rather than covering everything with a vast canopy. Even the grass had gaps, spots where bare dirt showed with no cover. She chose a hill a bit over a mile away and teleported the group there, then quickly spotted the place where they had just been. Even at over a mile distant, she could easily sense the lingering aura of her presence there.
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