Outside, the carriage wheels continued their rhythmic turn as the mountains loomed closer, and the air between the two siblings grew heavy with unspoken tension.
"Mister Gong, please write to Sect Leader Baek. Tell him we request permission to enter the north."
The only way he could deal with this matter was to go right to the source. Mister Gong and Hae-won looked at him as if he'd gone mad, and perhaps he had, but he had no choice. He was going to pay the Demon Lord a visit.
~*~
Baek Junghwa sat in his study with a letter that had been sent to him a week after the meeting with the sect leaders had concluded. The corner of his mouth quirked up as he read the letter once more.
"This Namgoong fellow is quite bold," he finally said, chucking the paper away from him.
