Kei saw Team Umbra .
Rapax ,Asp , the Rite Cleric and the High Cleric behind them — the four of them running out of the northwest toward the joined bleed bark , out of the wrong direction at the wrong hour , driven there by the cacophony that was their pursuit and not their company . Kei's eyes moved across them once , the operational count running ahead of recognition .
Only Rada was not among them .
His brows flinched .
Nothing more than that — the poker face holding the rest , the way it held everything , the single small motion at the brow the only place the count's wrong answer reached the surface . Four where there should have been five . The one missing the one he had spent points on an hour ago without saying her name even to himself .
Team Umbra did not know Team Noctis was there .
