"What's the situation right now? Dragonspire's borders are open, right? Which guild unified everything?"
After asking, Ethan looked at them with a calm, steady gaze, as if the answer didn't matter much to him, though the question itself clearly did. The group instinctively straightened under that look. They had already triggered the current wave, and the next one required them to move to another platform, so for the moment, they were safe. No immediate danger, and no pressure to act.
Silence settled over them, stretching longer than it should have. Ethan didn't rush them. He simply waited.
At last, the rogue broke first, his voice uncertain. "Druid… God, sir… have you really not been online for a long time?"
Ethan shook his head slightly. "Not exactly. I've been leveling in a hidden zone. That map had no outside contact. And I… live out in the mountains."
