"Wait," Larissa called, her fingers clamping securely around his wrist to halt his momentum. "A receptacle shaped exactly like a human hand, hidden inside a sanctuary explicitly engineered for dragons. Ren, that cannot be a coincidence."
"It could easily be a targeted trap," Luna added, her entire body rigid with tension, while Liora nodded with intense, silent agreement beside her.
"It isn't a trap," Ren stated softly, absolutely refusing to tear his eyes away from the hand shaped panel. "Wei and I have been continuously monitoring it through the golden fungal network. If there was a crystallization mechanism, or any lethal runic trap whatsoever here, we would have already decrypted the threat."
