"Huh? Benjamin? Hey, where did you go so suddenly?"
Heka had just noticed, with a sharp jolt of confusion running through her entire body, that Benjamin — the man whom she had been speaking just a few seconds earlier — was no longer present anywhere inside this room.
He was simply gone as if he had never been there in the first place.
But he had told her, in no uncertain terms and with that calm, gender-neutral tone of his, to "take care of the kids," as if she were simply watching over a few small children for a short while.
But now when she swept her gaze across the room and looked around at every single corner and shadow, she only saw one single "kid" in sight.
That one being Briar, the small and petite young girl with the long and striking silver hair that fell down past her small shoulders, one who was now glaring directly at Heka with obvious irritation and displeasure burning in her big blue eyes.
