The silence left within the training hall after my words were haunting as everyone kept looking at each other as if they seemed to have heard something wrong. Jacob even cleaned his ears to see if they were still working, and unsurprisingly, the first one to take things seriously and ask me the question that needed to be was Alex.
"You are not joking, right?"
"I wish I was," I responded after which the reality of the situation started to settle in for everyone. As stunning as the news is, they understood that I wouldn't call them all up here at this time just to bullshit all of them.
"Is this the first truth?" Alex asked.