I received the same reaction from King Kal as I had initially received from my grandmother—silence. It came as no surprise at all, and if I were being honest, I had been expecting it. I had been expecting that and so much more. It was a difficult thing to come to terms to, to simply just accept. And I knew that the questioning that I was going to receive from King Kal was one that would make my grandmothers’ seem like it was a civil conversation about the weather.
“What did you just say?”
The tone of his voice was already saying so much, already portraying so much of the shock that I knew he was feeling. Being told that Anoa had left must have been the last thing that he had been expecting me to tell him, especially after everything that had happened this morning. But I
