Although the spacious courtyard was packed with people, absolute silence hung in the air. Everyone watched the mother and daughter—reunited after a long separation—with complex expressions.
The guards of the Grand Tutor's estate wore cold, emotionless expressions like unfeeling machines. Even in the face of a three-year-old child's soft, pitiful cries, their faces remained entirely devoid of expression.
The commoners outside the courtyard, however, were moved to tears by the child's pitiful weeping.
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