The silence in the room was deafening as Malia sat across from Nixus, her fingers tightly clutching the edge of the table. The air between them had thickened, each word that had passed between them in the last few moments pulling them further apart. She had never been so sure of anything in her life, yet now, with the evidence of Selene's cryptic words weighing heavily on her, Malia felt as though she were standing at the edge of a precipice, looking down into a void she wasn't sure she could navigate.