'Arthur lied to me.'
Seraphina walked beside him, her steps light against the ground, but her mind was anything but still.
She could tell.
Somewhat.
Not quite.
It wasn't obvious, even to her.
No—it wasn't a lie. Not fully. It was something blurred, something between truth and deception, woven together so seamlessly that most people wouldn't have noticed at all.
But Seraphina wasn't most people.
So she picked it apart.
Arthur had said four things.
1. A qilin can read fate. Which was also a well accepted and document fact about qilins.
2. Arthur bonded with a qilin.
3. Lucent Harmony was the beast will of that qilin.
4. Because of that, Arthur knew about this dungeon.
The first? True. Well-documented. Accepted fact. A qilin was one of the few creatures in existence that could perceive fate itself.
The rest?
They were trickier.
If Arthur really had bonded with a qilin, it would explain how he unlocked Lucent Harmony so late.
