The Man’s Decree – Chapter 6011

At first she had listened with a tester's caution, yet sentence by sentence that caution melted. Her eyes fixed on the radiant patterns, widening with surprise and then shining with unabashed delight.

The breadth of Jared‘s knowledge, and the angle of his insights, towered far above anything she had dared hope for.

Concepts that had knotted her mind for months loosened at a single pointer from him, and theories she had never heard before clicked neatly into place. Neither of them noticed when the morning sun climbed high, their conversation had carried them from the pearl-gray dawn well past third hour

Servants slipped in and out, refreshing the tea. On the table the glowing diagrams shifted, faded, and reformed as new ideas rose.

Rania leaned forward, completely absorbed, a soft flush coloring her cheeks with every fresh discovery.