Earlier that day, long before the storm had forced everyone to take shelter inside the gym, Corvine and Kael quietly watched as Seraphine and Athaliah talked together.
Neither one of them had expected the Silver Moon princess to come across as so genuinely friendly and approachable with Seraphine right from the start.
Athaliah had closed the distance between them with this bright, open smile lighting up her face, chatting away so naturally and comfortably that anyone watching from a distance would have easily assumed the two women had known each other for years and were catching up like old friends.
"I've been trying to reach you for a while now," Athaliah said, and a quick hint of real disappointment flickered across her expression. "I just couldn't get through no matter what I tried."
"That robotic response kept tell me your phone was switched off or out of coverage area but I ended up hearing quite a lot about everything that happened with you."
