Killian
The room erupted into chaos, and for a moment, time seemed to stop. Someone—no, several—people had shifted and were attacking innocent civilians, and I didn’t have time to react—
“Stop the attackers!”
Elena rushed forward, her command carrying over the din. In an instant, several bystanders emerged from the crowd and subdued the attackers with a kind of precision that could only come from one source.
The relentless training of Captain Ciel.
My first instinct was to look to the captain to see if he had known about this, but his face was just as ashen as everyone else’s as he commanded his guards to escort the attackers out. The crowd was still in unrest, people shouting and shoving toward the exit.
So it was only Elena who knew; and it was by Elena’s swift or
