ARIA’S POV:
For ten minutes he circled around my bed in a form of pendulum. He would not speak and kept his eyes glued to mine, despite the many times I tried to look away. The longer his silence lasted, the more terrified I got.
When I was over the silence and the terror, I finally spoke up. “If you’re going to declare a death sentence for the second time, can you get it over with already?”
“Death sentence?” he scoffed. “There will be no death sentence.” He said, his voice was calm and carried the kind of chill that made his silence less terrifying. “In fact…” the last part of his sentence was a cue. The door pushed open and Ragner walked in. He had a scroll in his hand, which he handed to Draven.
“This is an undoing of the death sentence,” he signed the scroll. “It is very rarely tha
