The silence that lingered between the three of us was heavier than any boulder I had ever lifted before in my entire life; it was even heavier than that weird pillar that the Elders had had me lift as a test not that long ago.
This silence wasn't one that any of us were going to break anytime soon either; Valentina was just a quiet woman who truly did believe that her words were worth their weight in Spirit Jade while Evander and I were having a bit of a standoff.
I was just waiting for the sniveling bastard to say something so that I could have an excuse to hit him a few times, and he was trying so desperately to think up a plan to try and get Valentina to be on his side instead of being on 'my' side.
I could see his eyes gleaming with this pathetic attempt at cunning even from a few feet away in the dark, which was exactly the same as him being able to see my open disdain for him as I walked not that far, keeping him just barely out of halberd range.
