Aurelia's POV.The silence after the door shut was a different kind of silence.Not the held breath before something happens. The stunned, uncertain kind that follows something no one in the room had prepared for. The elders along the walls looked at each other with the careful, sideways glances of people who had come expecting to witness something and were not sure yet whether what they had witnessed counted. Then came the chatters. The silent whispers started. Low but careful qt first, then a little less careful. The increase in volume was evident. Kaelen shifted closer to me. His hand found my elbow briefly, barely a touch, and then was gone. I understood it. Stay alert, this isn't time to let our guards down. I kept my face forward.Torin's eyes were moving in a slow, steady arc across the room. Guards, exits, distances, the specific position of every person still standing inside these walls. I watched him do it the same way I imagined he had been doing it his whole life, witho
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