The room was silent as the party began their rest. It was already nighttime when they arrived and landed in the target area, so they first had to set up and rest before beginning the scouting tomorrow.
As such, with the lights off and everyone lying within their sleeping tents in the upstairs living room that Kaizer cleared out, the room was deathly silent, save for soft breathing and the sound of the ceiling fan spinning rather quickly to dispel the heat.
It was in this silence that a strange shadow emerged within the alley behind the house, which seemed to burn with ethereal fire, revealing a pair of eyes that stared at the building coldly.
The shadow did not move immediately, as Malek knew better than to rush.
The building before him was just another house in Al-Rafid's dense sprawl, worn by heat and time, indistinct in the eyes of anyone passing by.
