Chapter 168

As soon as Celestia finished speaking, the living room went dead silent. The kind of silence where if you dropped a pin, it'd sound like a bomb going off. Sophia stood frozen. Her lips parted like she wanted to say something, but then just... hung there. How could no one know what actually happened? Not even the two people in the center of this mess? That didn't make sense. How did things spiral like this? She wanted to blurt out all her questions, but one look at Celestia's serious face stopped her-she couldn't bring herself not to believe her. The tension in the air just got heavier and heavier, pressing down on everyone as they sat scattered around the room in silence. Just as Celestia was wondering what time it was, a sudden cold chuckle cut through the stifling air like a knife. "Don't know?" The tail end of the words went up, teasing, but with a sharp edge of mockery. Everyone turned toward the sound. Jareth, who had been standing by the window with his back to them, had quietly