Wynton stammered, "Why you…"

"Zella!" James turned around again. "Your brother said—"

"It's about the Haleth Realm!" Wynton quickly interrupted. Loudly, he said, "You have not been Deified yet, sister! You must not hear the Forbidden Words of the Path, or your cultivation will be affected! Go back!"

James watched Wynton hastily salvage the situation, and it took all he had to hold his laughter back. 'The siscon thinks he can use his so-called trump card to threaten me? What does he think I am, chopped liver?'

Zella was starting to suspect something, but she did not go back. Wynton closed in on James. "You call me underhanded, but you're lower than me. Fine, I can tell you everything, but my sister must go back.

"I am already deep in this mess, and I don't want to drag her into it. She's a lady. She should not suffer this."

That was the one decent thing he said. At least he was doing his part as a brother well. James gazed at him and turned around. "Go back, Zella. We'll call you