"Are you alright? Don't worry," his words brought warmth back to her heart, but she still didn't understand why tears were streaming down her face. The crowd's chanting of Taya and Miss Smith's names rang loudly in her ears, reaching poor Taya.
"Don't be afraid," he whispered in her ear as he escorted her to her room. "Orig, please, if there's anything I can do, I'll do it. These people are angry because of me. I don't know what I did in the past, but I'm the reason they're suffering."
