Olive's POV
The study was bathed in silence. Not a single sound was made such that I could hear my heart thumping in my chest.
The tension was palpable in the air, so thick one could cut through it with a knife. Ron's eyes were fixed on a spot while Dalton repeatedly massaged his temple.
We welcomed the quiet, but not the calm sort of silence. This one held a brewing chaos and I dreaded what that might mean for us and Bluemoon.
After I had been knocked out, Atria, Serena and Ethan escaped through the portal, leaving us with more problems than we began with.
If Atria had been working alongside Serena all this while, that simply meant that everything she did for us had some motive.
Including the orb.
"Maybe Atria never destroyed the orb", I broke the silence.
Dalton sighed loudly
