Chapter 2
It appeared her protector was scanning for any potential nuisances that might encroach upon their modest shelter for the night. She could gauge his readiness for a confrontation by how his arms were folded across his armored chest, allowing the hand of his sword arm to hover just above the pommel of his weapon, and by how his head was slightly tilted as though listening for other sounds beyond that of falling rain and crashing thunder.
Besides the physical indicators, she could sense with her own unique abilities that he was sending his forbidding aura out in threatening, rhythmic pulses.
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