‘Why...why would she do that to a child so obviously starving?’ Xanna said, after he was out of sight.
Kai, who'd been watching just as she had, shook his head. ‘I do not know. But it does prove that humans can be as monstrous as I feared. I wonder, how did that child end up in such a state? Even if he is an orphan, surely there must be family who could take care of him?’
A loud sound, like a hammer striking metal, echoed across the city, seven times in a row. Kai clutched his hands to his ears, the noise shooting pain into his head, and only lowered them when the last strike faded.
Suddenly, doors all around them opened and humans scurried out, rushing in the very direction that they were headed. They waited for a moment, unsure of what was going on, and spotted the woman from the brea
