On the Colossus bench, the silence was so heavy it felt like it weighed a ton. The chaos in this silence was almost as hard as the one in their Captain's mind.
Nobody dared to even look at Seth, sitting off to the side, staring blankly at nothing, with a towel draped over his shoulders that he didn't even seem to notice. Hall and Kael exchanged worried glances, neither of them knowing what the hell to say to break the tension.
"...So... What's the plan?" Kael whispered.
"No clue," Hall replied. "I didn't expect the duel to end like this."
Even the coach stayed quiet. Seth had just been crushed. This was Seth, the Best of his generation, the guy who never lost, and he'd just bitten the dust for the first time in his life. What do you even say to that?
