The murmurs spread fast and I could feel the eyes that were ready to rip me apart.
They felt I was presumptuous, that I had finally lost my mind and forgotten my place
They felt I needed to be punished.
At first, they were low and confused, people whispering under their breaths but then their eyes darted towards the fallen Veyra in front of me.
The tone shifted immediately, voices sharpening, and their whispers grew teeth to gnaw at me.
"She really did it…"
"She attacked them…"
"So vicious…"
Yeah, there couldn't have been a more cliché reaction from them. But I'm surprised.
That they actually stood down just from my words.
Well, whatever. They'll still attack me when they want to anyway.
Veyra's cry suddenly cut through all of it.
"Father!"
Her voice was broken, filled with terror, like she had been attacked by a vicious beast and was barely holding on to her life.
