Phoebe's POV
The attack came so fast I barely registered what was happening. Even as people around me gasped in horror, I couldn't process the scene unfolding before my eyes.
Thank God I was already seated, or I would've hit the floor just like that severed head.
My chest heaved as I struggled to breathe. I'd never watched someone get beheaded right in front of me before. Blood erupted from the headless corpse while the head dropped with a sickening thud, the body crashing down seconds later.
I stared as the life faded from elder Wesley's eyes. That expression on his face... it would haunt me forever.
He looked completely bewildered, like he had no clue what hit him before everything went black.
The kneeling crowd immediately scrambled away from where the head had rolled. Their faces went white as sheets, but apart from that initial shocked gasp, nobody dared make a sound.
