Chapter 96 The Quiet Crown
- The room still hadn’t moved. Not really.
- Time seemed to bend under the weight of what it signified as Adam Levi announced his second son the successor to the empire. As if the house had stopped to listen, dust particles floated slowly through a shaft of afternoon sunlight, and the crackle of the fire in the hearth got louder in the silence.
- But the true silence came from Lili.