The guild headquarters meeting room at eight in the morning holds everyone who was on the raid, plus Han Ruby and Yang Semyon, plus the particular quality of silence that fills a space when everyone in it is waiting for the same piece of information.
Ki Yeonbom puts his tablet on the table.
He doesn't open with context. He doesn't build to it. Instead, he simply says it.
"The mana signature on the stones matches Song Dohyun."
The room stays quiet for exactly three seconds.
Then Gim Haesung says, "Wait..." and stops, because apparently wait was all she had.
Woo Taehwa looks at his hands. Chae Yuna's expression doesn't change, but something in the set of her jaw does. Han Ruby goes very still in the particular way she goes still when she's processing something she should have seen coming and didn't.
Yang Semyon's tail stops moving entirely.
Yeon Yujun looks at the table.
