"Tsk, boring…"
That was all Sylas uttered when Caelius stepped in.
His tone was lazy, sarcastic and almost disappointed, as if the scene had failed to entertain him long enough. He did not argue, nor did he openly pay attention to Caelius.
Instead, before turning away to leave, Sylas delivered one final kick to Elias's abdomen, hard enough to knock the breath from his lungs then walked off as if nothing of importance had happened.
Just like that, time passed far too quickly after.
Two days had gone by since the incident, yet neither Elias nor Caelius spoke a word of it to Soren. They moved around him carefully while deliberately avoiding the topic, unwilling to burden his already fragile state of mind with more violence and cruelty than he had already endured.
Silence, in this case, felt kinder than honesty.
Life in the encampment continued with little visible change.
