Brad choked on air, coughing, hacking and wheezing. He was fairly sure his saliva had gone down the wrong tube.
Mauve's picture perfect demeanor shattered like porcelain glass again. Grey had already broken her once, and this time it was just easier than the last. She couldn't believe what she was hearing at all.
Amunet was stunned into silence. She went from barely being able to hold her laugh back before, to staring ahead in half abject horror.
Elowen didn't even know what was happening. It was like she was lagging a full seven seconds behind everyone else. It simply hadn't registered to her how wild and foul the words Grey had spoken had been.
As for the main star of this show, the person who should have been able to stop Zara pretty easily, he was staring just the same. Half his thoughts were completely blank, and the other half was wondering just how Grey moved around with the steel balls he had to drag everywhere.
