Iris ran a hand through her hair and sighed. She pulled two glowing purple tokens from her storage ring and eyed them critically, mumbling a few diagnostic spells over them. Myan’s eyes perked up at the sight, positively lighting up with hope. “Are they—Will they work?” he asked.Iris didn’t answer immediately, instead running some chronomancy through the tokens. “I’m not sure,” she eventually said. “They’re inactive right now, so I can't really tell. Things will get clearer as we draw closer to the hidden realm's opening time, but it’s not looking good.”“The token always glows brightest in the direction facing the hidden realm," she explained. "Even in the Maze of the Ancients, that feature held true. It was always my backup plan if the compass didn’t work. Navigate directly to the voidling hunt and hope we arrive before the tokens become useless chunks of wood.”Arthur took the tokens from Iris and carefully analysed them from all angles. They were glowing, which meant they were still operational. The only problem was that the glow was uniform across the entire token. There were no brighter spots. “Does that mean we’re going to be fighting this Inca lady?” Arthur asked. “Not exactly,” Iris said carefully. “It all depends on what Myan has to say.”The drow boy sat up straighter, his optimism quickly replaced by caution.“My first question. I need to know where the maze has taken us. Where does this exit lead? What's the name of the most powerful empire in the local area?”Myan stared at Iris in surprise. “You got lost, didn’t you?” he exclaimed. “How? You have a compass. A better one than even I.”Iris sighed. “We stayed in one place for too long. Now, answer the questions.”Myan turned to stare at Arthur, as if sensing it was his fault Iris was in this predicament. The boy had good instincts. If he hadn’t been distracted by the shadowed folk, they wouldn’t be in this mess. "The (...)