The Lightning Queen leaned forward, static electricity crackling around her crown as she reasserted procedural authority. "Yes, you were explaining what you experienced at Northwatch. You mentioned confronting the Duke."
Klaus nodded slightly. "I confronted the Duke," he stated simply. "He had been transformed into something... other. Not human any longer."
"And what did you do?" pressed the Ocean Queen, her voice carrying the subtle rhythm of distant tides.
"What was necessary," Klaus replied, his deliberate vagueness apparent to all present. "I expended more energy than my form could sustain. My consciousness fragmented as a result."
His crystalline eyes revealed nothing, no emotion, no deeper insight into the events that had consumed an entire city and erased an Eternal Rift from existence.
