He remained in the sky for a while longer while the cold night wind swept past him from every direction.
His expression stayed grim and his brows remained drawn tightly together while his eyes shifted constantly. Anyone looking at him would have immediately realized that his mind was working through countless possibilities.
Perhaps what Veyrun detected was ultimately harmless. Perhaps it was merely a distant cosmic entity glancing toward this world out of curiosity before moving on.
But Erend found it increasingly difficult to believe in such coincidences. Not after everything they had experienced. The timing felt far too precise.
The Void Architect's invasion had just failed. The strange signal Veyrun had been tracking suddenly vanished. Then almost immediately afterward, a cosmic-level entity directed its attention toward this world.
The more Erend considered those events together, the more convinced he became that they were connected somehow.
