It was as though the air in the room had gone still.
Still in her lungs, barely allowing any blood through her heart.
"Act how, Arabella?" his voice was ice cold, bordered by the sharpest of edges, "I should tell you by now that I have always known you suspected Edna. This is the second time I hear you share such theory with someone else. Although the first time around when it happened, we weren't this close, so I let it slide," his eyes flickered towards Allegra's bed, "Care to take a guess as to what I did to Edna when I became aware you suspected her," Silas did make a pause but waited for no response, "Nothing! I did nothing aside from uttering a few choice words with her which may have been harsh but, considering we were right about her, I feel slightly less at fault,"
