"Eh?" Kyva blinked, utterly bewildered. "Where did he go?"
She rubbed her eyes and looked back toward the pond, but the water lay still beneath the lanternlight, and no figure stood upon its surface. It remained perfectly untouched, well enough to trick her into almost believing she had imagined all that she just witnessed.
But it couldn't be.
"He was right there," she whispered with certainty to herself, straightening from her hiding place. She stepped closer past the doorway, cautiously looking from left to right, but she was met with complete stillness.
Had he disappeared into thin air?
Surely she hadn't imagined it. Her brain was not nearly as inventive enough to conjure such a sight.
Then where—
"Who are we spying on?"
The baritone voice behind her nearly sent her jumping out of her own skin.
Kyva nearly shrieked.
