The golden dragoness didn't waste a single moment.
The earliest opportunity she found, she quietly disappeared into obscurity.
Naturally, like anyone attempting something covert, Cirila had to take painstaking measures to conceal her actual destination. They couldn't afford to grow complacent about security simply because an unsettling calm had settled over the continent.
If anything, that silence before the storm only made Riley even more convinced that someone, somewhere, was already busying themselves with something even more dangerous.
Fortunately, that same uncertainty gripping Eryndra also came with one rather unexpected advantage.
People became much easier to convince.
Tasks that would've normally been met with raised brows and immediate refusals were now being accepted with surprisingly little resistance, simply because everyone understood that extraordinary circumstances demanded equally extraordinary measures.
