[KAWAI]
"I'm not sure yet. That's why I came to the ball myself. I tried, but there is something else there. Something I didn't put between them. If I break the ultimatum now, it will kill them both…
"…our kids will die, Zaffuto," Yilena said, her worries evident. It was like she knew there was more than she could tell her brother without ruining the after-war banquet.
Yet the more she seemed to be holding back, the more dangerous everything seemed to get for everyone, and more specifically, the two Erasthais who had suffered for the past decade.
This here was a ball for the success of their mission against the Grealors. Their first-ever public defense of Kawai, which had the king at the forefront. That was not the kind of shit that people woke up to all the time.
And Yilena really understood how important this was. How important it would be for the kingdom as a whole. She couldn't afford to fuck it up for everyone.
