Given Lady Selena's temperament, if Laurie had answered when I called just now, the fire bats would probably have swarmed out of their nest.
As someone who was always happy to lay traps, Fu Qian was far more perceptive about this sort of thing than most people.
Under normal circumstances, Selena might have tried to negotiate with him. But with the situation so urgent, getting tangled up with someone this stubborn was clearly not worth the effort.
Still, though entering early gave her the advantage of striking first, this vampire demigod didn't know that staying outside could be rewarding, too.
Now that he'd successfully learned where Laurie and the others were, the more this place seemed connected to the Death Master, the more he could infer about the Greedy Worms' situation.
For instance, what their deathly Reflections looked like, and whether they were unusual.
And it seemed they were. Selena had evidently managed to track Laurie here, too, and realized that the identities he'd claimed earlier were all made up. That was why she'd asked him those questions about death—
Yet this very discovery was now helping to mislead her.
Why did he know about the Greedy Worms? Why had he impersonated Laurie? Why was he interested in this place? Because he was the "Tail" he'd mentioned earlier.
He was also a follower of the Death Master, only more detached than the Greedy Worms.
That meant his motives were perfectly calibrated: he didn't mind helping them out, but he wouldn't care if they died, either.
Even if Selena later confronted Laurie and the others face-to-face, the discrepancy over whether he served the King of Prison Break or the Death Master would have a perfect explanation.
All he had to do was reveal his "true face." Every step along the way