"Lord Kael, I will say this one last time, let my child go."
The father spoke as he slowly grabbed the hammer he had used to forge Velmourn weapons for decades. His eyes made it clear that he wouldn't back down, not when his child's well-being was at stake.
Kael found this reaction quite strange.
He had barged into this house thinking it was the house of the traitor. Imperia told him to stop the child from writing whatever he was writing on that slate, and he followed.
The child, however, looked innocent, so Kael was blaming the father instead. After all, the child was barely eight; he must have been influenced by someone.
But…
If the father was truly the traitor, he should have been panicking instead, or at least more worried about the slate…
But all his focus seemed to be on the child instead. Not once did he look at the slate or its condition.
It didn't seem like something a traitor would do.
Or was he just that good at pretending?
