Keeping that particular suspicion to himself, Yang Qing decided to probe indirectly.
"Other than you, who else knew about the method of getting into Banyan?" he asked.
"My parents, my grandfather, and his parents before him," Xia Fang replied. "The line stops with his grandparents—specifically his grandmother. She was the one who uncovered the method and passed it on to her children, who then passed it to theirs. My grandfather was one of them."
"It was decided long ago that the clan's fail-safe measures would only be effective if as few people as possible knew about them, even within the clan. Because of that, individual families began making their own arrangements, only receiving the necessary resources from the clan to make it happen.
In fact, the only reason I even knew about the Dreamscape Swallow's Nest being a refuge was because a close friend of mine told me she was heading there the night we broke through the blockade..."
