A man with hair spun from pure, gleaming gold popped out of thin air, though to my absolute surprise, the sudden teleportation didn't rattle me half as much as it should have. It seemed my human brain was finally adapting to the absurd, impossible physics of this realm.
The gold-haired stranger was watching me with an intense, unblinking curiosity. His piercing green eyes stared so deeply into my face that it felt like he was actively dissecting my very soul. To be perfectly honest, it was a little creepy and not at all pleasant to be surveyed like a rare specimen by a complete stranger.
"Where did you stumble upon a human, brother?" the man mused, his eyes lighting up with a sudden, dangerous spark of mischief. "I highly hope you haven't forcefully dragged her into your isolation."
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