Fighting a Protector [4]

Listening to the familiar, yet unfamiliar voice, my mind blanked for a moment. When I turned my head, it blanked completely. 

A figure sat crossed-legged next to me. 

"How…" 

I opened my mouth to speak, but the words died in my throat when I noticed the missing chains on his body. His expressionless face gave nothing away, and I couldn't read any emotions in it.

I felt a shock wave through me at the realization of what this could mean.

'…What is going on?' 

"Kevin's dead." 

His voice carried a sense of indifference to it. I noticed that he blinked his eyes a few times while he was staring off into the distance. That was when I also turned my head and saw Waylan standing in the distance. 

My heart sank to the lowest depths imaginable.

"So that was the case…"