The atmosphere didn't freeze with the question, but it did gain a moment of stagnation. Only the blue-haired maid froze, her expressive face suddenly collapsing in one full of a placid sense of deferential respect. She took a deep breath and bowed to her master, before walking to the side.
Lucas watched everything with a light smile. The question only made him raise an eyebrow, before he found it amusing and stopped paying more attention to it than it was worth. Still, not everyone had his casual air.
The first thought that appeared in Hannah's head when hearing the question was the planet they just visited in the darkness beyond the lit map of the Empire. The desolation that had taken the place of what should have been liveliness, or rather, life itself.
