Chapter 464 – Rats
"Where were you just now?" Katherine asked, her omnipresent gaze all too familiar to the Alchemist sitting there.
He hadn't budged an inch from his place, yet even without that, Katherine knew when Alchemist used a clone as a medium to witness something.
It was rarely done.
He never liked the feeling, he always said.
So for something to make him use a thing he hated… she knew without a doubt it mattered.
So she asked, and watched Alchemist's head bow low, eyes fixed on something held between his fingers.
A small item shaped like an eye, runes etched across it. Runes that no longer worked.
"They have escaped." He said simply, clenching his fist, crushing the item with a loud crack and reducing it to black powder that scattered around him.
"They?" Katherine echoed, and Alchemist could taste the confusion behind the word. Just as he felt her realisation and outrage rising before she even opened her mouth again.
