When Lyric found out that Soren was leaving, he expected to feel relieved.
That should've been the end of it.
Soren leaving on his own should have felt like a problem solving itself.
But it didn't.
Instead, there was this strange sense of disappointment sitting in his chest, heavy and annoying but Lyric didn't understand it, and that only made it worse. He had wanted Soren gone so why did it feel wrong now that it was actually happening?
Why did the thought of Soren walking away leave him unsettled instead of satisfied?
Unfortunately, Lyric had no answer.
He only knew that Soren leaving didn't give him the relief he expected and that bothered him more than he wanted to admit.
Alaric, on the other hand, didn't bother hiding his hostility.
Anyone looking at him could see it in the way he gritted his teeth, the sharpness of his words and in how he refused to even entertain the topic without irritation. But buried under all that was something he refused to acknowledge.
