The golden glow from the Awakening Stone still shimmered faintly in the air, bathing the room in an almost reverent light.
Principal Kael leaned heavily on his staff, his eyes flickering from Noah's still hovering status, to Noah's face and back again, his aged features taut with thought.
He almost couldn't believe what he was seeing, but he couldn't deny it. The Awakening Stone's information cannot be faked. Noah had been telling the truth.
He exhaled as his pale eyes shifted between Cecilia and the boy sitting on the infirmary bed. The boy who had just shaken the very foundations of Camelot with a single touch of his hand.
"SSS…" Kael murmured under his breath, his voice soft as if speaking it aloud would break the fragile moment.
His mind was already racing. "We'll need to inform His Majesty immediately. This cannot be contained for long. The kingdom must know."
Cecilia turned to him, her face still flushed with awe, golden eyes glimmering. "Then you believe it?"
