Tris felt his vision blur, and then he was standing inside a large house.
He checked the temperature. It was much the same as before, so they probably had not transported him very far. Most likely, he was still in Egypt, perhaps even somewhere near Cairo.
The furnishings were sparse, or rather, there were practically none. Apart from a set of old, unusually spacious sofas, the house was almost empty.
Six people were sitting or standing in the room. With Tris and the person who had brought him, that made eight.
Apart from Tris, they were all adult wizards, and every one of them wore a silver mask made from some unknown material.
Quite the turnout, huh?
Tris raised an eyebrow slightly.
Unlike the others traveling with him, Tris had reacted when the person beside him suddenly lunged at him. He was different from ordinary wizards. His daily physical training had made his reflexes much faster than theirs.
But reacting was one thing. Being able to do anything about it was another.
He had originally assumed that his attacker intended to drag him away from the group, then escape through Apparition or some other means. Surely there would not have been enough time for that.
Sirius, Remus, and Arthur had all been on their guard beside him. Tris had thought they were simply being cautious because Egypt had so many Dark wizards, but now it seemed they had been prepared for precisely this sort of thing.
Besides them, Tris knew there were another two people watching from the shadows.
His primordial spirit gave him particularly keen senses, and he had long since noticed that someone was keeping watch in secret. After probing with his primordial spirit, he had recognized one of them as Snape.
Although he was not sure why