The room went quiet for a second.
The silence was like something unexpected has been said and everyone is deciding how to react to it.
Christina slowly turned her head toward Lucas.she leaned closer to him.
"Did he just flirt with Mother?" she asked, her voice dropped low.
Lucas looked at Azael. Then back at Christina. "...I genuinely don't know."
Celestia herself looked faintly surprised. Which, given her default expression, was surprising in its own right.
Azael maintained his calm smile on the outside. On the inside, he was going crazy. Not understanding what wrong thing did he said.
'What did I do wrong? I was just giving a compliment. Noblemen compliment noble ladies like this all the time. This is completely normal. This is fine.'
It did not feel fine.
"That took some courage," Callius said, with the tone of a man watching something unfold from a safe distance and choosing to stay there.
