TE17 Mysterious Montenegro

Thekla Kraußeneck

“Didn’t you arrange to meet?”

“It wasn’t possible, I’m afraid.”

“Just ask around. We’re done here with the intro. It would be best to go to the Mystagogue first to get yourself classified. It was a pleasuremeeting you. Careful, when I leave, the gamewill begin.”

Why was he warning him?

“I often come here on personal business. Perhaps we shall meet again Zachary Murray.”

“See you then,” Zack said nervously.

Before he could batter an eyelid, Octavian had disappeared and the hall started to come to life.

Zack was suddenly part of a buzzing, colorful scene and once again he just stood there in the hall for minutes like a statue, taking it all in. The elevators darted up and down in the glass tubes; the airship ascended with whirring propellers and drifted out through the gigantic opening; another one passed it from the opposite direction, landed, and opened its doors, allowing people to flood in over the ramp like a colony of ants. At the fountain a boy with a sword was sitting next to a girl with extremely long, plaited hair that dangled into the water. A group of people were chatting next to the illuminated columns that surrounded the

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