22

After the bizarre incident everyone trickled out, myself included leaving Noah to his thoughts. As I stepped through the unfamiliar walls of wherever I was, my mind drifted back to Noah. I wasn't his biggest fan or his fan at all, but I could tell he was distraught. If it was from the Elders not fully in support of him, or Diana's revelation or even Eric's outburst, I didn't know which would be troubling him the more. Whichever it was, he needed time to soak it all in and that was what I was giving him.

Like I'd said, the hallway of this building was strange and nothing compared to the palace. As much as I hated it, I was kind of getting used to that place.

Kind of.

I continued my walk with nowhere in particular. Until someone else stepped in front of me. Almost like he'd been waiting for me to get here. We stared each other down for a while before I broke the silence.

"What are you doing here?" He wasn't in the pathetic state that he was. He seemed to have recovered and his arm was b