It's the first time Zhang Xi truly furrows her brow. It isn't anything explosive or theatrical. The change comes subtle, almost imperceptible, but enough to break the continuous serenity she's carried since the moment she entered this room.
And the reason is obvious.
Silver Flow.
Even as a daughter guild, it's the opposite of the Silver Fangs in nearly everything that matters. While the Silver Fangs preserve an image of order, healing, aid, and runic refinement, Silver Flow thrives in the chaos of the lower city. They're opportunists, middlemen, dealers of information, specialists in turning any crisis into profit.
Legend says the discovery of the rune to clean the ducts came from some troublemaker in Silver Flow who tried to blow one of the ducts with a blood rune, drunk and with a cleaning deadline to meet.
Silver Flow is literally the black sheep of a family made up of three subsidiaries: Silver Flow, Explosive Wave, and Rapidots.
