The Verge Of An Empire

14

Do they see us? I asked.

– How should I know?

“You are a mage, you have studied materials about this place.

- Oh no. It was mainly about the possibilities of survival and the magical background, and whether the shadows see us or not ... It seems to me that they are like ghosts, that is, they are like a vague gloom for us, and we are like a vague gloom for them.

- It makes sense. They stop and look at us, as if doubting our existence ... And how do you know how ghosts see us? Do you even believe in ghosts?

“Hypotheses, Bree, only hypotheses… Lups shadow!”

A massive, humpbacked mass of darkness with long arms, an outstretched head, and a whiskered tail galloped across the crossroads, skirting the shadow of a boy selling matches. Three hundred and twenty years ago, lups rarely left their area, they were a species minority, and older inhabitants treated them much worse than they do now. This is not strange, given that at that time wolffaces were considered primitive savages who had just e