Chapter 212: Loyal To Only One

LAKE But even as I said it, I could feel something shifting inside me. The absolute certainty I'd carried for so long was developing hairline cracks.   That's when I sensed them -- multiple presences at the boundary of the compound. Too far away to see clearly, and there was something obscuring them, probably magical interference. But they were there, moving with purpose toward our location.   "Andy," I said, my voice taking on an urgent tone. "There are people at the boundary."   Her head snapped up, all traces of casual cruelty disappearing from her expression. "What kind of people? How many?"   "I can't see them clearly," I replied, extending my supernatural senses as far as they would reach. "There's some kind of witch blocking them. But they're definitely moving this way."     Andy stood up abruptly, her face cycling through anger, fear, and cold calculation. "Stay here," she ordered.   "Continue working on the healer. If anyone tries to interfere, kill him immediately."   She str