Nidhogg remained motionless for a few moments after hearing Elion's remark. Her expression didn't change much, but Kael immediately realized she had taken those words seriously. The situation had finally ceased to be just a complicated family argument or a sequence of absurd events involving teleportation, volcanoes, and atmospheric collapses. Now there was a concrete objective before them. For the first time since all this began, they needed to enter the central domain of Yggdrasil for real.
