#Chapter 81: The Watcher

Enzo The lodge that we were supposed to stay in for the duration of the first match of the tournament was old and dusty, but that wasn’t the most disconcerting thing about the place. The most unsettling thing was that I sensed a shifter somewhere very close. Were the Crescents already starting to spy on us? I suspected that they would start spying and plotting some sort of sabotage at some point, but not this early on in the tournament. I decided to ignore it and not mention it to Nina for the sake of not scaring her. Instead, for our first day at the lodge, I tasked everyone -- myself included -- with cleaning the place up. If the state of this place really was intended to throw my team off our game so we wouldn’t perform well in the match, I wasn’t about to let that happen. “Alright,” I said, clapping my hands together once everyone had time to look around and bring their things inside. “Let’s clean this place up.” My team looked a bit shocked, but no o