And then everything started to make sense. The Prime Minister's remarks over dinner that one time, the King of Hearts' words today and his incompetence and even the words exchanged that occurred between her and the Time Man.
"You are from… another world?" she said it. And when she gazed back at the man in front of her, she'd see that there was a certain look in his face and he would let out a breath. Emotions swirled around him.
Ease.
Unadulterated relief.
Solace.
That was what was present in the eyes of the man and the shift of his posture told her just that. Rosalyn Lockhart couldn't even make a strangled sound or even make a vague sound of protest when she was met with such clearness and joy in the man's eyes—there was such revel in it that he looked like he was about to collapse then and there.
