For a long time after he had hung up, I stood there, trying to make sense of what had happened, but in all honesty, every second of the conversation was slowly starting to seep out of my mind, causing me to wonder if it had ever truly happened. It felt wrong to question myself, for it felt like I was questioning so much more than just myself.
“Well… I’m sure that you weren’t expecting that.”
I snapped out of my thoughts at the sound of her voice, turning around and finding that it was indeed the Queen who was staring at me with that focused, intense stare of hers. It almost felt like she was looking right through me, like she was somehow able to see my soul, to hear my innermost thoughts—or perhaps I was just starting to feel the tiredness that had been vacant from my b
