"Jocelyn Carrington, Elias Cavanaugh, compatibility score, twelve."
"Stuart Weston, Alisa Green, compatibility score, twenty-five."
...
"Becca Reyes, Calvin Ramos, compatibility score, twenty."
...
As the "compatibility scores" for each pair were called out, everyone was mostly in the dark, eyes wide in confusion, minds filled with puzzlement. They only paid attention when Austin Shepherd called out their own name.
"Flossie Wright, Belinda Nichols, compatibility score, zero."
As Austin Shepherd announced the last score, his voice slightly sunk, and then the hand holding the list was lowered.
The square formation team was filled with hushed whispers, and Flossie, who was standing in the back, could clearly feel an icy, bone-piercing aura cutting through the air.
However, amidst Becca Reyes' schadenfreude smile, Flossie didn't even tilt her head, nonchalantly as if she hadn't felt a thing.
You didn't have to guess to know whose glance it was.
