"So is he the reason you chose not to go to First Celestial?"
Kain said while turning to Soren and pointing at the golden figure on the stage—Cassian Lysander. Soren's cousin and the current heir apparent to the Celestial Empire's throne.
He had noticed that as it got closer to the time that Cassian was about to board the stage, Soren gradually got paler and tenser. And now he sat glaring at his blood-relative with both fists clenched in his lap.
However, he didn't reply to Kain's question, only giving a sidelong glance that expressed his dissatisfaction with the line of questioning.
But Kain didn't need a willing conversational partner to keep talking.