Chapter 127. Setbacks

They were all bare back, beads of fresh water dripping down their bodies and pooling on the forest bed. Their skin shimmered slightly, and they wore only seaweed draped around their waist.

Aakifahlynn immediately thought, 'This must be Taisiya's people.' They observed her closely, tilting their heads and sniffing the air around her, making otherworldly grunting sounds and glancing at each other as if communicating.

Well, damn. Aakifahlynn's first thought was that she should have read the books on their kind in their entirety instead of only focusing on the Sea Goddess because she does not recall Alpha Jarrod mentioning anything like this.

The sounds were eerie, and they made her pores stand on end. Then she heard, "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" The tallest of them all slurred.

"Looks to me like the great and mighty Queen Luna... if one were to ask me," another one said. He had bright orange hair, similar to Taisiya's.

"So this is the one t