Chapter 2237

"Yeah? What do you need?" Hector's heart sank at Shannon's response. His usually warm eyes were infiltrated with a drop of caution. That wasn't Shannon. She would never speak like that to their mother. Who… was she? Adam and Thalia, too, immediately sensed that something was off. They knew their daughter well enough to notice the subtle shift in her presence. Thalia instinctively tensed. As she parted her lips, ready to question who she was, she saw Shannon suddenly turn solemn and snap toward a distant point in the room. Everyone followed her line of sight. Before long, a familiar figure appeared out of thin air. It was Benjamin who had teleported over upon sensing her awakening. He was supposed to be waiting with Thalia for Shannon to wake up, but Velquin's freshly recovered soul had shown signs of instability just the night before. He had gone to stabilize it, but upon sensing Shannon regaining consciousness, he instinctively teleported over, forgetting, for once, the presenc