Chapter 171: Things Spoken Softly
Lyria's POV
I continued staring at her.
Patricia merely looked back at me with complete calm, as though she had not just overturned something in my mind that had remained fixed for years.
Then her hands moved.
'Close your mouth,' she signed. 'Before flies decide to make a residence of it.'
I shut my mouth immediately.
She laughed again at that, silent and warm, her shoulders shaking lightly with the motion.
I blinked several times before finally managing to speak.
"H-how is that p-possible?" I asked, my hands moving with the words. "Y-you told the K-King as well?"
Patricia nodded once.
Then her expression softened into something quieter.
Her hands rose again.
'Perhaps,' she signed slowly, 'if His Majesty had listened to me properly, matters would not have escalated to this extent.'
I stared at her for a while.
There was no jest in her expression.
And somehow that made the revelation far more shocking.
