The moment the three of them turned toward the tower and started walking, the city noticed.
Not all at once. The way news moves in a frontier city — person to person, block to block, the information traveling faster than they were walking. A guard at the gate checkpoint recognized Lexel from the entry ledger. Said something to the guard beside him. That guard looked. By the time the three reached the tower's street, people had started turning.
Master Edren was the first among the Big 4 to step outside.
