For a moment, the air between the two brothers grew incomparably thick and heavy as they stared at each other in silence.
Anyone chancing upon them, even if they didn't know either of the men, would instantly recognize them as brothers. Both possessed the same chestnut hair, the same graceful and refined features with smooth jaws, well-shaped lips, and subtle brows. If a sculptor had shaped them both from clay, then he'd clearly used the same mold.
But from that same mold, countless differences emerged. Owain wore his hair much shorter to accommodate his helm when he donned armor, while Loman wore his long, tied back in a neat, scholarly tail with a silk ribbon that matched his tunic. Both men were tall, but Loman's figure was slender and graceful, whereas Owain's radiated the strength and power that flowed from his sculpted, muscular physique.
