"Even your answers were nearly identical. Why is that?" Irina asked, looking at Noa and Thalia with cold curiosity.
The crowd froze again.
They all looked at the pair, judging them.
Everyone had answered the last question without trouble.
But the top rankers had messed up, and they all wanted to know why.
"It was about the Graveworms, right?" someone asked, getting nods from his fellow applicants. "Why would they make such a simple mistake?"
"Perhaps they are from a place where these useless beasts don't exist," another one guessed.
"Is there even a place like that? Those pesky little worms are everywhere."
"Who knows?"
Amid the chaos, Noa didn't register a single word being said behind his back.
His mind wandered.
His thoughts reached Thalia, and his eyes lingered on her.
'She didn't write that down? But why? She should know that Graveworms are the weakest creatures,' Noa lamented, trying to read her mind. 'Is it because of me?'
