The silence didn’t break immediately.
It stretched.
Heavy.
Uncomfortable.
Raze was still on the ground.
Breathing hard.
Eyes wide.
He didn’t understand what just happened.
None of them did.
Kael turned.
Slowly.
Every step he took echoed through the hallway.
No one blocked him.
No one spoke.
They moved aside.
Instinct.
Fear.
And Kael felt it.
Not the weak kind of fear he used to feel.
The kind that follows something dangerous.
[Passive evolving.]
[New Trait Forming: Dominance