Chapter 37: A Simple Mistake
"What are you doing!"
"Let go of him!"
"Don't shoot! There are children present!"
"What if he's an Awakened like he said?!"
The roaring, the pleading, the rasping finally reached Hope's ears.
And yet, the noise didn't faze him in the least. His eyes remained on the grim man who thrashed in his grasp, fingers clawing on Hope's hand and forearm desperately. The poor man's eyes bulged, and his face squeezed red as choked gurgle sounds emitted from his throat.
People scurried in the great hall like rats. The several that were in relation to the grim man, the ones that Master Leda had saved, all broke down in tears as if reality had been stuffed in their mouths again.
The horrid truth of all the loss they'd suffered. Although, Hope didn't know what.
But it was a loss that the rest of the people in this room tried to slate over with empty smiles they wore so they too could replicate like babes.
And with food placed in their hands as if training a dog.
But the people in tears grabbed them, yelling in their faces, demanding answers of what was to come of their future.