Chapter 192. The Quiet Prince

DOVE

As the days passed, I noticed that Cethium still did not cry, and the doctors wondered if he was in danger of suffering damage to his vocal cords.

We had no way of knowing until he said his first words. The little boy stood by his brother’s side and watched him, sometimes with even the slightest hint of a smile. In this respect, he was just like his father; he didn’t have an easy laugh.

The day of the expedition passed, and in the days that followed, things seemed to improve, at least as far as the crime wave was concerned. When the king made the call and they entered the tunnels, many had already come outside to surrender.

What happened next was the most painful thing: some of them managed to escape before the fanatics could kill them. The other hostages they had for their practices and rituals were killed by themselves because they couldn’t have freedom. The sect explained that everyone who was there wouldn’t come out alive because they had already s