Chapter 146: Runes in the Morning Light
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Kent eased the suite's door shut with his heel and let the latch click home. Room 1207 smelled of orange‑blossom diffuser and the salt‑butter haze of the hotel's breakfast buffet that still clung to their clothes. On the twin futons, now stripped of sheets and a knee‑high hill of ruin‑loot glimmered in the sunlight pouring through the balcony glass.
Nima marched straight to it, still licking sugar glaze from her fingertips. "All right, big brother, no more delays. Find out what's useful to us. Then we will sell the rest of the useless treasure, buy land, raise my beasts, and the end." She folded her arms with the finality of a general issuing an ultimatum.
Auri, wings newly edged in sunset red since last night's phoenix‑blood infusion, fluttered to the bed‑rail and chirped once, chip! "Let's see the haul."
