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Additionally, there was still the dangling thread of Chort, the so-called Beast of Lorent.

Hector hadn't forgotten what he'd seen in that vision Pauline showed him.

Chort had been brought here and experimented on. Which left the question of who had done it and why. Hector had the impression that the earliest events from that vision had occurred many years ago, but the facility that Chort had been kept in seemed to be government run.

So how trustworthy was the Lorentian government, really? Could Abolish have been involved in that whole mess? Could Ravi have? Or maybe Carl and the Vanguard?

He'd already talked to Garovel about this at length, and ultimately, the reaper came to the conclusion that, even if the government here was shady, the land in Jagwa was still too valuable of an opportunity for them to pass up.

And reluctantly, Hector agreed, but that didn't mean he intended to let the issue drop, either.

He'd tried looking into the name Lozaro more--the person who Chort claimed had "brought him into this world"--but thus far, Hector hadn't found any mention of him here in Lorent. According to Garovel, the man was some kind of internationally famous mad scientist, but his current whereabouts weren't widely known, it seemed.

He wanted to find out more, but another part of Hector wondered if searching harder for such a person would be a good idea. It would obviously be a big problem if the guy was in Lorent, and Hector would rather know about his presence here than not, but what would a confrontation with a mad scientist look like?

Nothing good, Hector suspected.

He supposed, right now, the wisest course of action was simply to prepare. For whatever came next.

He'd been trying to talk to Rasalased again, too, because if anyone knew what was really going on in Sair right now, it would probably be him. Two of the four Shards were with Asad, after all.

But unfortunately, it had been radio silence so far.