Lu Huayu's wandering associations did not interfere with his swift, perceptive exchange with Xue Yunfeng.
That was the best thing about two intelligent people talking: a name and a couple of words were enough to convey the point, without wasting time on lengthy explanations.
Then he raised his head slightly and asked Umberlee curiously, "Does our Umberlee really know nothing about that Set?"
"He plays around in the desert~" Umberlee answered casually. "It looks a bit like a beach. All I want to do when I see it is flood it. If I hadn't found it strange that he and Anhur belonged to the same pantheon yet fought every day, I wouldn't even have bothered looking at him."
"Then did you see him playing with scorpions?" Lu Huayu pressed.
"Scorpions and some kind of black, white, and gold beetles were flying around in the wind." Umberlee thought back before answering somewhat uncertainly, "My sharks ate some. They said they tasted awful."
Lu Huayu raised an eyebrow... He was beginning to understand why Xue Yunfeng had still asked him to question Umberlee after going to William... Well, to Shar beside William, really... for confirmation.
Sharks, especially Toril's sharks, would even gnaw on seaweed when they were starving. Carrion was nothing to them, and bugs made a decent snack. They could even eat spiders with relish.
And yet they had actually found those bugs disgusting.
It seemed they really were undead bugs: the so-called sacred scarabs from the region where Mulhorand lay, which ate corpses and absorbed the aura of the dead.
Set actually dared to dabble in undeath on Toril... Tsk. Even Ao would not dare intervene in the River Styx so brazenly through divine hands.
So the one who had brought Afs to Toril was very likely Jergal, the true