The blonde woman opened her blue eyes fully and met his gaze with an intensity that made him straighten slightly in his chair.
"...Daitentamono was hit directly by the cosmic beam that Benjamin created some days ago," she stated, her voice dropping to a more serious register. "In fact, the spirits suggest she might have been the prime target of that attack rather than an incidental casualty."
The young man's face went pale, all traces of annoyance replaced by dawning horror.
Renard immediately turned serious and looked back at Seraphina, his blue eyes turning cold and calculating as the weight of her words fully settled upon him.
The playful irritation that had colored his features moments before evaporated entirely, replaced by the sharp, focused gaze of a ruler who understood the gravity of what he was hearing.
"Are you absolutely sure about this information? I need you to be completely certain before we proceed any further with these assumptions."
