At the apartment, Mike and Lexie joined for a few bites under Eddie's enthusiastic urging, though they'd eaten.
After dinner, Eddie took Macaron downstairs for a walk and left the rest of the apartment to Fennec and the others.
This world's Eddie was just an ordinary human. He didn't have Freya's backing, and though Fennec was dating him, she'd never revealed anything about being a half-demon.
Mike and Lexie updated her on everything that had happened over the past two years in their world.
When Fennec learned that Shannon had become the only ten-tailed fox of the Wynthorpe clan, she was visibly surprised.
"That explains it. There was a moment when I sensed something strange. Shannon felt different then."
Since Fennec carried the Might of the Alternate Divine Power, no one from the alternate world should have been able to sense her unless she actively reached out. Yet, Shannon had somehow managed to connect with her forcefully through an array.
Perhaps that might have been the bloodline suppression effect.
Mike had heard about Fennec's connection with Shannon. Now that she brought it up again, he perked up in excitement.
"That was my array! Though it takes four interlinked arrays to open the portal to the alternate world, each individual array has its function."
He didn't care whether Fennec could fully understand him because he was far too excited to share the array logic.
"The one Shannon used to reach you must've been the Echo Array. It establishes communication with the alternate world, but it can't transport people.
"There's also the Conduit Array, which can randomly transfer objects between worlds. We discovered this while studying the Rift barrier. I once lost a bunny I placed in the array, and it just vanished…"
He'd gone to considerable effort back then, trying to trace where the bunny had gone. It was only after linking the array to the alternate world that Ghost Mist's malevolent array started making sense.
Sadly, he never found that poor bunny he'd specially bought.
Fennec had been listening patiently the entire time. When she heard about the missing bunny, she suddenly stood up and walked to the balcony.
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