The carriage continued its journey along the road for the next few hours, the horses resuming their steady trot while the coachman still seemed to struggle to regain control of his own breathing after what he had witnessed. The silence inside the vehicle was now different from before. Before it had been a tranquil, almost lazy silence. Now it was a heavy silence, full of unspoken thoughts and images that the poor man would probably take many years to forget. Damon, on the other hand, had already returned to the same indifferent calm as before. He was once again seated on the cushioned seat with his eyes closed, his body relaxed as if the carnage on the road had been just a minor inconvenience during the journey.
