Inside The Palace Walls

When Izroth rose to his feet, he felt a gentle tug on his shirt from Selene lightly grabbing ahold of it. Then, for the first time since they met, she opened her mouth to speak.

"...Leave... Selene...?" The young girl asked in a barely audible voice.

Izroth was pleasantly surprised when Selene spoke. It seemed that the man from earlier was wrong about her being mute.

It may have been a natural defense mechanism to survive for the young child. In this type of lawless place, one wrong word was enough for someone to forfeit their life.

Seeing as how she referred to herself by the name Izroth had given her, she either failed to remember what her parents named her or was never given a name. But, it was not uncommon for orphans to be nameless. This was something Izroth knew from firsthand experience.