(A couple days later, Skyshard City, A common citizen's POV )
By the time a few days had passed, the rumor had already begun to spread, whispered from market stalls to shuttle queues, drifting through blacksmith forges and drifting across café counters, as snippets of "Soron… alive…" slipped through the streets exactly as the Elders intended, yet the reaction that followed was nothing like the uprising the council had envisioned.
Most citizens simply smiled at the rumor, feeling happy that their Lord might finally be back before brushing it aside like dust on their sleeves, continuing with their morning chores as though nothing meaningful had been said at all, as if Lord Soron's return—something once sacred enough to mobilize armies—had suddenly become irrelevant compared to the life they had now inside this Stilled World.
