When a seed of a troubling theory formed itself in Sunny's mind, he tried his hardest to suppress his shock. However, he must have let something show, because the shadows across the Ivory Tower suddenly grew restless.
Nephis spared him a brief glance and continued her verbal duel with Asterion.
Sunny, meanwhile, was too preoccupied with exploring his suspicion, wanting to turn it into certainty… and dreading that certainty, as well.
'It can't be. Can it be?'
He examined the facts.
All of them were things he had already known. However, only after meeting Asterion face-to-face did it become possible to assign real weight to these tidbits of knowledge and, therefore, draw connections between them.
The first hint…
Was the timing of Asterion's supposed return.
He had mentioned having to push his plans forward because of Neph's unexpected ascension to the throne of Supremacy. But what about it had made Asterion feel hurried, exactly?
