Verónica let out a sigh that echoed throughout the room, her sharp eyes, which had been shining with an intense light, relaxed a little. Next to her, Alices tilted her head with an almost feline movement, and her smile spread like a crack in a cursed mirror. There was fascination and a slight uneasiness in those eyes.
"Wow..." she murmured, her delicate, inaudible voice seeming to draw out a hypnotic energy. "What an interesting child." The last words fell like coins into a pool of mercury, reverberating with a playful gleam that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.
The Director was completely silent, processing what he had just heard. After a few seconds that seemed like an eternity, he turned his statue-like profile towards me. "Cyan..." he said, and his tone was not as firm as when I first saw him. He seemed to be processing something before he could say anything. Our eyes met. "Answer me clearly: how far did you see?" How much of the future was revealed to you?"
