Chapter 21: Ambush

Luca stared at the three girls while he cleaned the burn wound on his arm. The Karainas had hurled fireballs at them from behind the flaming gates, and one dashed right past his elbow. The wound wasn't deep, but he wouldn't stop fussing about it. 

Scarlett couldn’t tell what he thought of their escape.  A tense argument seemed to be going on in his head as he daubed the wound with a yellowish ointment, looked at the girls, shook his head, then sighed, and stared at the girls again.

“Are you going to speak? I need to relieve myself,” Pakuri said all of a sudden. 

Luca had summoned them and asked to talk to them, but then had them standing there seemingly for no reason. 

“I’m trying to understand the logic behind your actions," he said. "I understand you three are all barely of age, but you are supposed to be Karainas. I get that you wanted to avoid fighting the other Karainas, but you could've come to me first." 

“I tri