"Do not worry, I'm here to save you now…"
The words carried effortlessly through the execution grounds and beyond them, amplified by the livestream arrays until they spilled into every connected world at once, as trillions of screens across the universe displayed Soron's calm expression and the kneeling Dragon at his feet, the declaration settling like a stone dropped into still water.
Across distant systems, reactions fractured instantly.
On some worlds, outrage erupted as citizens began slamming fists against tables and screaming at projected images as they could not handle the disrespect that Soron showed towards the Universal Government.
While on others, anxiety spread instead, quieter but deeper, as people leaned closer to their screens with tight expressions, sensing something wrong in the way he spoke, not desperate, not defiant, but assured, as though the execution were a temporary inconvenience rather than a final sentence.
