We passed my father and Silen in a blur, so fast in fact, that I didn’t even have so much as a moment to fully take in the sight of them, of their reaction to the fact that I was being dragged down a hallway by no one other than Dae. I was expecting to hear my father calling my name, or anything similar to that, but there was nothing. I was greeted with radio silence for the entirely of the time that it took for us to get to a different room, one where we would have the privacy that the council wished for us to have.
But once we were in the room, it felt like all of the fire of Dae’s anger, all of the fuel that he had been burning, disappeared in the blink of an eye. Instead, I found myself staring at the face of a man who felt betrayed, heartbroken, to an extent. And I was more uncomfor
