The Silence Before Death
While Shawn was thinking of what to do with Victor, the nobles who wanted to get Amura were now heading back to the inns that they had rented. They figured that they would be staying here for quite some time, so most of them booked a whole inn to stay at, while others had villas placed in this town.
Out there, the roads of Fantom City ran straight and still, almost holding their breath. Silence clung too tight.
At first, none of them noticed.
Elsewhere lived their thoughts.
Frustration.
Humiliation.
Greed.
"How dare that girl speak to us like that…"
"We should have acted sooner…"
"That sword… that power…"
Whispers slipped from one to another while stepping forward, draped in soft cloth, watched over by warriors wearing steel and spellwork. Footsteps tapped quiet on rock trails, yet somehow those taps vanished into a silence too deep to be real. Stillness held everything tight.
No merchants.
No townsfolk.
No wandering guards.
Just empty streets.
