"Is he a ghost?" some council members whispered. Others argued that his behaviour was a trauma response—a desperate attempt to hoard resources after his catastrophic dealings with the Toranks.
They believed he was buying things he couldn't use simply because he feared the opportunity would never arise again.
Moth, however, didn't buy that theory. Standing in the presence of the human, he felt a different energy. It wasn't the frantic greed of a hoarder; it was the calculated, cold urgency of an architect who already had the land cleared and was simply waiting for the bricks to arrive.
He felt that Hye did indeed have a vast territory to fill—perhaps one hidden by means they couldn't fathom—and that he was in a desperate race against time to populate and fortify it from the ground up.
