"Then you won't be waiting much longer."

Her stride doesn't have a spring to it, but Carolina seems to have more energy now that there is a clear and present threat to investigate, compared to the drained moping that seemed to follow the disappearance of dreamers and the return of the portals. (She'd deny it, but that's certainly what it was, a real sense of what-is-the-point having taken over.)

Lela trots happily at her heels, mewing a polite greeting to the familiar NorthPerson, before kitty-bowing to Amaterasu.