I couldn't move my mouth at all, couldn't dare to, after hearing the death threat. It was as if all the gallantry that had existed before I re-entered the Alnor Palace with him slipped away from my fingers like water.
Perhaps, this was his safe haven where he could do whatever he wished and he wouldn't be judged at all. But with him being disguised most of the time, until he revealed his identity, it was hard to not blow off his cover while maintaining his temper, that is unless he was trying to be a law-abiding citizen in his own country to set an example.
Or maybe it was because he had my chain that seemed to sustain my weak lifeform in this cold and disastrous place. Still, the fact that when I was out in the open made me braver was strange. It might have to do with his intimidating appearance, which at the moment had such a dark aura that it could suck a soul out.
