Team Shadow Knights: Going In Blind Pg. 7

"Good point" Bandit's chillingly raspy quiet voice almost caught Tori by surprise as she turned to notice him circling around her from behind and twirling to a halt before her as elegantly as a haunted window curtain. She stared wide-eyed at the purple ghost in shock.

"You can hear my thoughts!?"

"Taste them, more technically~..." Bandit coolly responded with his ever so soft-spoken crackled tone of voice. "though I don't dine on every thought you spout out. If you wish for a more simply put explanation, my kind are known to be grudge eaters~" A creepy chuckle escaped his throat as he finished, enjoying the look of disbelief on the Pawniard's face.

"Great, officially no privacy." Tori grumbled in her thoughts before beginning to pace and suddenly stop.

"Wait, that can actually be useful!" She then hastily turned herself around to face her ghostly partner.

"Bandit, I want you to listen very carefully about this. If what you said earlier is accurate, then this rescue attempt is nothing more than a HUGE trap! My instincts are going crazy about it and there's plenty of reasons why I agree with them. Think about it: 1. NEVER trust sketchy people. That Zorua kid has "suspicious" practically swimming in her eyes and in the air she breaths! 2. NEVER trust an associate of an enemy. You said Illusionary Woods was domain to a mother Zoroark and her kids, that Zorua pup is one of her kids, right? How do we know she's not sent by her mother and leading us into a trap set up by her for us!? I don't CARE if she's just a kid, an enemy is an enemy! 3. The enemy has a HUGE environmental advantage. If what you said about her and her kids being the ones causing the illusions and stuff in Illusionary Woods is true, then there is no question she and her kids will use that against us. 4. No one mentioned a plan for fighting tactics should we end up having to fight that Zoroark and her kids, let alone, some sort of counter against her illusion powers. Everyone's throwing their hopes on a successful ambush, but what if that fails!? What then? We'll have to fight her! And if her illusion abilities are as powerful as I imagine it is, then she might not even need to lift a claw to defeat us! She might even make illusions to trick us into fighting our own teams! How are we suppose to counter that!? The battle may as well end up in a catastrophe! And FINALLY, 5. There's a plan to get inside Illusionary Woods, but no one mentioned a plan for getting out. Though I can imagine we wouldn't have to worry a lot about that if we succeed, BUT, what if we fail? How do we plan on safely navigating out of such a forest labyrinth without getting lost and losing anyone? What if the Zorua kid ends up not being able to help us find our way out or happens to be an enemy to begin with!?" Tori huffed irritably, finally sitting down with her head bowed and held between her knifed arms.

"Do you see how many red flags are in this whole thing??" Tori looked up at her floating purple friend with a frustrated gaze, though when Bandit looked back into those Pawniard's eyes, he didn't need to taste her thoughts to recognize the hidden glint of uncertainty and a weak gloom of hope in her eyes...