A black shadow leaped through the window. It was Lilith.
She looked curiously at the two people in the room, tilted her head, and opened her mouth, hesitating over whether to speak.
Audrey remembered what she had seen in the garden earlier and hurriedly patted Edward. "I saw Lilith learning to talk from Susie in my garden earlier. She really did take a potion and become a Beyonder creature!"
"It's Miss Lilith!"
A delicate, soft voice rang out, and Lilith repeated with a serious expression, "Miss Lilith."
Edward walked over and picked her up, asking with a smile, "Why does it have to be Miss Lilith?"
Something flickered in her gemlike eyes, as though she were thinking. "It shows... respect."
"All right, we'll call you Miss Lilith from now on."
"That's right!"
Edward looked at Audrey and explained, "Lilith... Miss Lilith only took her potion a few days ago. Sequence 9, Assassin."
"Which pathway is that?"
"Demoness."
Audrey quickly recalled that the information she had bought from Mr. Hanged Man for 1,000 pounds had mentioned the Demoness pathway: what they believed in, which era they originated in, which Beyonder pathways they controlled, and what inclinations their higher ranks had. Most of it, however, had been quite general.
"As the name suggests, a Sequence 9 Assassin of the Demoness pathway needs to act as an assassin. Cats are natural hunters, and their way of hunting fits assassins very well." Edward paused, then spread his hands. "At first, I was more inclined to give her an Apothecary potion, but I really couldn't imagine how a cat was supposed to act as an apothecary."
Audrey tried to picture it too, without success.
The two chatted a little longer. When she noticed that the sky was growing dark, Audrey hurriedly stood up.
"Oh no,