The room was quiet when we entered. They were all sitting in the same spots that I had left them. Kaden was nowhere to be seen so I assumed he was still upstairs. Dave was the only one out of the three that didn't look upset or worried. He wore a perfect mask of stoicism. If I didn't know better, I would have thought he didn't know anything about the situation.
He didn't seem like the person who couldn't read a room. In fact, he seemed like the type of person that could read a room so well that he could bend the truth for his own advantage. When I met him, I had known there was something off about him. He was too calm, too lacking in compassion, and that made it hard for me to connect with him at all.
All the others in the pack had something about them that made me not feel sorry for the
