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Madam Caitlyn and Annie's consciousness immediately grew hazy. They stood where they were, their eyes unfocused.
Audrey quickly looked around, confirming that there was no one else in the corridor. Then she released her mother's arm and slowly drew her own arm away, but Madam Caitlyn remained motionless in the same position.
After temporarily clouding their wills with hypnosis, the gold in Audrey's eyes slowly faded.
Then she turned toward the window. Sure enough, she saw the uninvited visitor outside, dressed in a robe with a hood concealing his face, pass through the glass and land lightly on the carpet.
"Are you Miss Audrey Hall?" The hood was pulled up a little, revealing a middle-aged man's face.
Having listened to the True Creator's ravings for years, even after those ravings had ceased to be harmful, the words had still had a considerable influence on the Saint of Secrets' mind. Botis's eyes occasionally rolled strangely, showing madness and ferocity.
Faced with the stranger's greeting, Audrey frowned slightly and put on a thoughtful expression before asking in apparent bewilderment and suspicion:
"Who are you?"
Apart from Ms. D, with whom she occasionally exchanged letters, no one in the Aurora Order knew her. Audrey had already decided what sort of new persona she would use in Intis-just a few changes to the normal "Audrey Hall": a girl not yet twenty who was being forced to leave home, never to return; a noblewoman bringing a substantial dowry, seemingly traveling far away for a marriage alliance, yet without a fiancé. Alone in a foreign country, it would hardly be strange if she became more suspicious and somewhat more aggressive.
However, she had already roughly guessed his identity and purpose.
A High-Sequence Beyonder of the Apprentice pathway had suddenly appeared here without alerting Bishop Elektra