Chapter 213: Lyros.

Adelaide is scared of the humans.

I don’t know why she is scared of them or how she can be scared of them but I know she is. She avoids them instinctively.

She seems to walk around the butlers as they carry trays and come near her. She seems to not look at the men and women in black in the shadows of the pillars. She doesn’t notice the man whose hand tips a drink and it goes crashing to the ground around her.

She sits, legs tucked up, skirt riding dangerously low on her lap and her head propped up on her folded arms. Her eyes stay glued to the movie the whole time it goes on, and something about it feels uncanny.

More than uncanny, something about it doesn’t feel honest.

“Should I tell them to go out?”

Adelaide’s eyes dart to me and she frowns lightly “Excuse me?”

I let my eyes roam the room knowing she will follow them and I notice when she does. Her eyes land on the first human ensconced in the shadows of a pillar and she pulls in a hollow breath before shaking her head.

“No……. The