The training ground settled.
And what stood in the circle was not a cat.
It was a fox. Or fox-shaped. Black from nose to tail except for silver-white markings at the tips of its ears and the ends of its three tails. Three. It sat in the circle with the very specific self-possessed quality of something that had arrived on its own terms and was currently deciding whether the terms of this arrangement were satisfactory.
Its eyes were amber. Sharp. Evaluating.
The system appeared.
◈ SUMMON IDENTIFIED ◈
[Name: Unassigned]
[Race: Sovereign Fox]
[Rank: Elite]
[Status: Uncontracted]
[Core Traits:]
Phantom Step: Movement leaves no trace in any detection layer.
Mirror Sense: Copies and stores sensory data from contracted summons.
Veil Craft: Generates concealment fields. Difficulty of detection scales with rank.
[Classification: ???]
◈ NOTE ◈
A Sovereign Fox and a Sovereign Core.
You really do attract your own kind.
◈ ◈ ◈
Orion read the traits twice.
