"There are a lot of eyes here."
Zoey's voice came out quietly as she stared ahead.
She stood at the start of a long passage leading up to the courthouse. Metal barricades lined both sides of it, stretching all the way up to the steps, and behind them stood thousands of people.
They were packed shoulder to shoulder, their umbrellas pressed against one another, and above them, countless banners swayed in the wind.
[Free Seth Thorne!]
[Justice for the victims!]
[He saved us all!]
[Murderer!]
Some of them were in support of Seth, while others very clearly weren't. The two sides had been split down the middle by the barricades, but that didn't stop them from shouting at one another across the passage.
And right in the middle of it all was the path that Zoey had to walk.
"….."
Kyle didn't respond. He stood beside her, his hands buried in the pockets of his coat as he looked down the passage.
The two of them were here as representatives of the Severed Stars Guild.
