IAN
The meeting ended the moment she stepped in. No one dared to argue with her even though they were excited that she was back.
"Get Out!" Those two words were directed to the councils and no one questioned it.
They simply stood, bowed slightly out of habit or fear, I couldn't tell, and fled out almost instantly.
(That bastard! He must have been the one to notify her!) Kane needed to tell me nothing about the one he was referring to before I could grab it.
Even Blake kept his head down, like a soldier who knew his general was about to bring down thunder.
Mum stood in the doorway, arms folded, a storm of ice in her eyes. The kind of gaze that once silenced councilmen mid-sentence and turned warriors into children.
But I have grown numb to it, worn like armor. That judgment in her stare didn't reach me anymore, not the way it used to.
I didn't even give her the courtesy of a nod for now, knowing how she had just destroyed the rule I was about to make.
