Zarek bent down, staring at the curve in the ground. He crouched in silence like that for a long while, his expression unreadable. However, the others, even Priya, didn't dare to speak, as though they were afraid of interrupting Zarek's thought process.
Crux was indeed overthinking things, but so was Belladoll. Zarek had come late not because he had some great trick up his sleeve, or because he wanted Belladoll to overthink things, but instead for a very simple reason.
He wanted to scout his opponents.
He knew Belladoll and Crux's abilities like the back of his hand, but there was too large a range of things they could be capable of in this life, considering the variable that was Suki and their own memories.
Seeing this mark in the ground, he knew he was right to do this. That was especially so when he saw the marks that denoted the others they had come with.
