Just as I had been expecting, everyone went silent. They went as silent as they could be, which was saying a lot, since there was always some kind of bubble when something like this was shared with them. There was none of that this time. They were all simply staring at me, while I stared at King Kal, waiting for him to respond to me.
Truthfully, he looked more shocked than anyone else in the room. He hadn’t once broken eye contact with me, and the colour had already drained out of his face. I wanted nothing more than to go up to him and shake him so that he would be able to come to his senses and answer me.
But I knew better than to do that. The chances of me receiving no more than a back-handed response was already too grave. It was best that I didn’t do anything else, that I merely w
