Klein looked up from his books, and immediately his expression hardened with the accumulated resentment.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, his voice letting out months of repressed frustration.
"I've come to take you to the new home where you will belong," Kassian responded, slowly advancing toward the room's center.
The small number of teachers and guards tensed… being silver or lower, since all school gold ranks participated in the war, no one dared move. There was something in the two visitors' presence that promised instant violence to anyone who interfered.
"I don't want to go with you," Klein declared, remaining seated but with his jaw clenched. "I'm sick of your lies and how you hog all of father's attention."
