“Party tricks are well and good. You killed the Old beta not even sparing a day. I didn’t think you had it in you. You scandalized my court—well, we both know what they are, and what they’re worth. But can you do it when it counts? Now that you are my third command, what do you plan to do?” Victoria met Lukas stare. She realized that Lukas didn’t inherit his father dark emerald eyes, he followed his Mother in that department. There was a whole winter in those eyes of his, and nothing else.
Even in Elder Jadissa's placid gaze Lukas could dig deeper and find a subtext, but his Father’s eyes held nothing but a cold season.
Victoria think that was where the fear lay, in the lack of curiosity.
She have seen malice many times and she had seen hate in all its colours. Victoria had seen the
