*Nearly 14 years earlier continued* Easton is still smiling, but his smile is slowly dropping as he watches the room, which had been silenced on his arrival, become a deathly pin drop silent. He has never experienced such a sensation in the midst of so many people. Easton's good mood crumbles and a stuffy feeling worse than what he had before surrounds him, a crushing aura, a deep hatred, a roaring anger. Some of the people in the room can't handle the pressure and try and stand up to leave, but even that motion is too much. A couple of the girls of the lower blood class just fall to their knees. No one wants to be here. No one wants to hear such a thing, but it is like a car crash that they are subjected to. They cannot look away, they can't unhear what was heard. Some of them fear