"There doesn't seem to be any squatters."
The egg landed softly on the ground. Tomoe hadn't opened it yet—part of her worried there might be people hiding nearby. After all, anyone in the vicinity would have surely noticed a massive dark crystal egg descending from the sky.
Still, anyone outside wouldn't be able to see them. Tomoe's darker variant of crystal was opaque unless you were standing almost right against it.
They waited in silence for several seconds, scanning for movement, before Tomoe finally pressed her fingers to the crystal wall. A sharp crack rang out as the structure shattered, revealing the world outside.
Riley immediately sent out a telekinetic wave, like a radar pulse, scanning for life or motion. Other than the slight shifting of metal scraps scattered across the warehouse floor, his radar detected nothing. No movement, no breathing—aside from himself, Tomoe, her mother, and Erik. And of course, not Rob.
"I was hoping we would run into a few of them."
