Unlike Lirien, who was equal parts stunned and unsettled by what she was seeing, Evan had already assessed the creature's strength and reacted accordingly without giving it much thought.
But as he did, he got a close look at the creature, and it immediately caught him off guard.
'This guy... why does he look exactly like that bastard?' he wondered.
At first he thought it might just be a coincidence, that maybe he'd seen wrong. But then he noticed Lirien's reaction, and it didn't take him long to reach a conclusion.
She was a student from the academy, and from what he'd learned, others from there had ended up here too. Percival had been in the same year. So how likely was it that he'd ended up here as well?
"Fate really does have a twisted sense of humor," he said, recalling Seraphine's words from earlier.
A faint, sadistic smile spread across his face, one that made Seraphine raise an eyebrow in surprise. It was the first time she'd ever seen him make an expression like that.
