Chapter 54. Sin

The guard decided to lift his chin. His breath caught in his throat after hearing Azeeva’s story of Paramour’s condition and Madam Jenn’s crazy ambitions. He looked at Zee with compassion.

“My name is Brian, the main guardian of the tribe between the two worlds, Orion. We can live both in the human world and in Paramour. We are humans who have been tasked with bridging the lives of humans and Paramour creatures. Our powers can balance the magical order so that nothing penetrates the two worlds. At least, that’s what we did before our powers weakened.”

“What we feared happened. What happened to Paramour is a sign that the magical order we guarded has begun to falter,” he continued.

Zee realized more and more that so many threads were connected to maintain the order of the universe. For the time being, those threads were getting tangled uncontrollably. Orion was a tribe of frontier mages.

The crowd had dispersed, and the tribespeople seemed to have entered thei