In the dining hall, silence had its presence fortified and influenced by circumstances. Regardless to that, activities ongoing out but within the main castle's expenses were definite to the hearing ability in the dining hall, notwithstanding the fact that the dining hall was very much secluded thickly in terms of its walls.
The high pitched squalling of a little infant who couldn't set his eyes on his mother, several servants laughing loudly as they chat, the clashing of swords as some warriors had fun in training and many more could all be distinctly heard.
On the contrary, none of these ultrasonics were audible: Lucifer's blustering anger swirling within him, Theogo's exhausting guilt, Milka's unpeaceful queasiness and Theogo's siblings' urge to get their brother out of making himself wholly guilty about the whole situation.