Cleara’s illusion spills over them like cool water, blurring their shapes as the alley narrows with late-night crowd noise. Rosmira keeps Leon close, and the last few mall-goers drift past without looking twice.
Leon Wolfe
The scent is still there. I do not like this.
Jews glances back once, then forward again, reading the alley and the people at its mouth. Cleara’s veil holds, turning their exit into an ordinary slip through the service way.
Madam Cleara
Keep moving. The veil will not last long if you linger.
They reach the mall’s rear exit. Neon washes the wet pavement, and the air feels briefly open, almost safe. Leon’s shoulders ease for one breath, then tense again as he catches something he cannot quite place.
Above them, on the rooftop, a dark silhouette watches the whole departure without a sound. It does not step forward, only tracks, while Leon’s hidden trail stretches out into the night.
✓ Quest Accepted
Regroup at Chi's tower
“ros has cleara take jews and leon to the tower with her magic. Ill follow right after i see who is still following.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled -1)
Rosmira lifts two fingers, and Cleara answers at once. The veil tightens around Leon and Jews, pulling their outlines into a clean, ordinary blur.
Madam Cleara
I can carry them. Do not dawdle.
Light folds under their feet. Leon and Jews vanish with a soft, displaced shimmer, as if the alley itself breathes them out elsewhere.
Leon Wolfe
Rosmira.
Jews
Find the one watching. Then come to us.
Rosmira
The rooftop silhouette is still there.
Rosmira stays behind a heartbeat longer, alone in the neon rain, as the scent trail and the watcher above both pull taut in the same direction.