Angel had wanted to watch how Daly "examined" Rupert, but she had not expected Spirit Channeling work to be even duller than divination. Daly opened a bottle of hydrosol and had Rupert take a sniff, sending him into a strange dazed state. Then she put on her hood, sat across from Rupert, and stopped moving.
Angel observed from the side for a while and found that Daly had entered some kind of trance as well. Her eyes had rolled white, her expression was solemn, and she showed no response to outside stimuli.
If Angel had not known Daly was a Spirit Channeling, she would have thought a Nightmare was invading someone else's dream.
After watching for a while in boredom, Angel figured the Spirit Channeling session would not end anytime soon. Rather than remain in the hall, she returned to her room on the third floor.
Before she left, Morrow and Brandon, who had gone to Yarn Clinic on Fourth Avenue in Duran Borough to deal with the Listener, also returned to the base.
It turned out they had dealt with that Aurora Order member long ago. However, the clinic contained many Ritual Magic arrangements and sacrificial items left by him, so they spent some time handling them before notifying the police to clean up the aftermath. That was why they returned later than the other two teams.
The other two teams had both successfully dealt with their enemies. Only our side fought bitterly for half the day and still let Mr. C escape... Even Tomaz's corpse had vanished.
Angel felt somewhat discouraged.
She knew that before long, Mr. C's wanted posters would be spread throughout the entire Loen Kingdom, just like Tomaz, who was already dead but had become a "missing person."
But as for how effective such a