Raul`s point of view
The delegation was approaching. Only four of them.
Alpha Bjorn came to my side.
“Do you want me to be present?”
I smiled. “You think we should match their number?”
He returned the smile. “No. I mean that more eyes see more.”
“Ah. But you see… from the way the four of them communicate, we can learn a great deal. Whether they agree on everything, who stands with whom, who holds the most influence. You understand?”
Bjorn nodded. “And if you go alone to meet them, then they cannot learn those things about us?”
“Exactly.”
Soon we could make out who the four figures were.
The king stood out immediately by his attire. Upright, but walking with a slow, deliberate pace as if he wasn’t moving by muscle, but by sheer will alone.
For a moment, an unexpected gentleness
