บท 127: The details Madam did not reveal

It took me a hefty moment to shake off my surprise and actually get to thinking. But once I did, I ended up noticing an annoyingly important detail of what Madam just dropped on us. 

"We?" 

A single word that appeared strangely often in just the few words she said. A word full of implication… And one that gave me the convenience of asking about it. 

Because I needed time, to process everything I'd just heard. 

'A war? Forest getting overran? Return back?'

A hundred thoughts flashed through the busy nodes of my brain, clogging my entire thinking process. 

'Wait, what if I…'

Prompted by the memory of a relatively recent event, I took a deep breath and chanted in my thoughts. 

'Eye of time.'

Maybe it was stupid, to activate this skill long before any fight was about to start…