Regardless of what the outcome might be, Leonel himself was unprecedentedly calm and unmoved by it all. So long as his wife was safe and healthy, he didn't care about anything else.
He took Aina's hand and began to walk. However, rather than making his way out of the city, he walked toward the city lord's mansion.
…
City lord Anesse was a middle-aged man. But unlike Kammy, he didn't seem to be tapering off from his prime. He had a robust build, a greying beard that exuded an air of strength and wisdom, and a pair of deep black eyes that seemed to carry an abyss of their own.
News of what happened was exceptionally slow to travel. There were no methods of instant information transfer. So the man didn't know of anything that had happened, nor of the loss of his son.