Strangers in the End
A few attendants stepped forward hesitantly, but when they caught the warning look the steward shot them, they stopped dead in their tracks.
Eli snapped at Karina, his voice low, "Enough. You're making a scene."
To my ears, the words only sounded like a joke.
I lingered no longer, and climbed the smooth, cold-white marble stairs to the second floor at an unhurried pace.
More than a dozen partitioned boxes ringed the second-floor hall, divided by screens yet still overlooking the entire floor below. The box dead center, with its carved and gilded doors, was the Thorne family's own seat of honor.