All Chapters of The Boy who Circled Time: Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

Most of the guards had then left the room, after the announcement was given, leaving only two of them behind as the group of them from Gryaz tried to form some sort of cohesive movement between them all. One of the elder men, the one that had been stood along side Gretel during that briefing, immediately took charge, deciding to stand in front of them all and then pace for a moment as he tried to come up with a few words to say.Eventually, he decided to settle on the statement," We need to all calm down and try to come up with a project plan of what we need to do. We're all here in this together, and I know that we've got a tough task to complete, I'm sure that we'll all make it through this to the otherside, so let's all introduce ourselves."Gretel's usual immediate reaction was to internally scoff and scowl, before quickly panicking and try and prepare herself to speak out in front of them all.It was so much easier to keep quiet and express you

"Belinda, computing," the final woman at the end of the line introduced herself as, her voice small and taciturn, as she kept her arms crossed over her body, as if giving herself a hug, shivering and shaking as she stood there curled inwards with her head bowed down and face hidden in the shadows of her hair.Gretel immediately wanted to take her into her arms and give her a hug, reassure her that everything was going to be alright, and reminded her distinctly of the children of the soldiers who were forced to attend the funerals of their deceased parents.They had often just wanted to curl up somewhere quiet with their loved ones and bawl out all their emotions, but were forced to keep their faces black to not disrupt any of the state ceremonial proceedings, and if they wanted to cry, if their faces scrunched up bright red, then they would be paraded around as symbols to show off exactly what the Sýnnefan Empire had done and why it needed to be stopped at all c

When she had finally finished tracing over the top of the diagrams and more lightly marking out the mottled and burnt areas of the sheet, a hand suddenly lightly poked her shoulder, causing her freeze.Somewhere within her, there was the instinct to turn around with her fists raised to retaliate against the shock to her system, but at the same time, the image of the spy, begging for his life, flashed through her mind, the scene playing out in front of her, forcing her body to stop to a juddering halt in fear of retaliation.So she did nothing."Sorry for surprising you," a voice called out, apologetic in tone and whispering to be heard over the deafening and ringing silence of the room.She recognised it immediately and turned around to face Green_One, who was leaning over with a slightly sheepish and worried look.Nodding to him to indicate that his apology had been accepted, Gretel let herself indicate to a chair to try and let him maybe sit down

It was alright.Gretel would be alright."I'm sorry you had to go through that. I've heard horror stories and stuff. It wasn't good of them to use students to get out of paying for services," Green_One consoled her, bringing a hand up to tap her a few times on the shoulder."If you ever need to talk to somebody about it, I'm here, and so is Blue. He's better than me at this," Green_One went on to explain, before his hand dropped down and he went quiet.None of them spoke afterwards, the sounds of pencils scratching and paper rustling filled the void between them.Gretel cursed herself.She should have lied.If she had lied and had said literally any other institution, other than the truth, then the situation would have worked out far better, but no.She had to go ahead and think that she could open to the man in front of her, she felt guilty about her taciturn phrases as soon as she said them, and she felt like she had a debt t

"Alright! Get Out!"The loud yell forced another freeze into Gretel, as the loud words, from an unknown voice boomed loudly around her, stealing away her breath and inflicting upon her a harsh slap to her sanity.It took Green_One placing a hand on her own to help her return back to the world as thoughts of whether she had done something wrong, or had violated some sort of code of conduct and committed some grievous and traitorous error, consumed her and left her empty with little else.The weight of the warm hand steadied her and she found that she had needed to stare it for a few long, long seconds to even understand and full see that it was with her.He was with her.She hadn't done anything wrong.He did not leave her like the rest.Slowly, taking in a deep shuddering breath to steady herself, Gretel turned around to see the guards much closer to where they were before.No longer were they standing at the door, manning thei