Silence was the worst.
Not just complete, unchanging silence. Short, changing but inherently still silence was the worst.
This was worse, when he heard a few instead of a lot. When she heard discreet sounds instead of long, loud ones.
Rhena thought having knowledge that her loved one was dead was the worst – but it wasn't. It was the second death of her loved one that truly wreaked havoc, tearing her heart to torn pieces.
Heon Lightwalker – the replica summoned here from a parallel world by Darym the Breaker – was losing his life to a mad man her mother dubbed as the best information gatherer under her father's reign.
It all started several days ago, when her mother, the Queen of Bahran Pasai, along with her little brother and their respective knight guards, went to Ecklet Island in search of the lost crown. Rhena thought what they did was a waste of time.