~ CASSIAN

I had no idea what Sylver was up to. He looked calm. Too calm.

Yet we all knew nothing that spelt calm could be associated with him.

From the way Nyra shook in my arms, I could tell he did something. He was up to something—and whatever it was, I didn’t like it.

The whole situation was not helping. Especially not the fact that our father had placed this burden of an order over us.

What was worse; he had to put it at a time like this. A time when Sylver’s condition was ...