It was as if the energy was slowly dying out, the motivation behind everything that both of us had been feeling, disappearing as if it was never there in the first place. It was replaced by nothing other than awkwardness, that a tense atmosphere that I would have wanted nothing other than to get rid of. But how was I supposed to get rid of it when the very cause of it didn’t seem like it was anywhere near ready to take his leave out of my chambers?
I didn’t understand why he had even agreed with his grandmother, because I had already explained to him why this would look bad. The fact that someone like Elder Xara didn’t share my viewpoints about the matter, was something that baffled me. And if she hadn’t thought of it, then I should have been given the opportunity to point them out.
Or
