The Weight of Treason

[KAELIA BRYNN HALLOWAY]

The world is silent. Gravely.

The Prince's clear-cut command still lingers in the air.

I know that I am not the only one shaken by it, because I feel Lucius Alaric, frozen in a frame, behind me.

Stiff and not even breathing

Then slowly, as if being wound back in, he withdraws from me, straightening to his full stature, until he looms behind me.

All I can feel from him now i