Aiden, with his enhanced hearing, had been listening to every conversation in the halls the entire time, even while he focused on his notification screens earlier.
He filtered the overlapping voices easily and pieced them together into a coherent understanding of what each group discussed.
Aside from Cedric, Daylor, and a few other mages, there were no others from Xathia present in the halls who had been rescued.
There were a total of five people from Skallgard, two of whom were Lord Ivar's sons.
Both of them stood off to the side near one of the stone pillars with regretful expressions weighing heavily on their faces.
They spoke quietly between themselves and Aiden's hearing caught every word.
"Do you think Skallgard will ever accept us back?" one of them asked in a low voice.
The other shook his head slowly. "We killed our own father," he replied bitterly. "It doesn't matter that we were possessed. That's what they'll remember."
