*KABOOM*
Another streak of thunder split the heavens, its glare momentarily lighting the Eternal Garden as Kaelith and Mauriss stood locked in their standoff, neither willing to yield so much as an inch.
*Gulp*
Raymond swallowed hard, his throat dry as he stood beside his father, mortified at what might unfold next.
'I was going to disappear to some obscure planet and lie low for a few years until Mauriss's temper cooled… but no. The lunatic just had to come barging in here today before I even had the chance to run….'
He cursed bitterly, unable to believe that his luck could be so cursed.
Had Mauriss arrived even a few hours later, he would already have been gone from the Eternal Garden, far from this suffocating confrontation.
But now, escape seemed impossible.
Yet even as he blamed fate for trapping him here, a sharper unease gnawed at him, an unease that made him wonder as to why Mauriss suspected him at all?
He could have sworn no one in the universe knew his secret.
