Alpha Instinct - Chapter 46: "Five Seconds of Silence"

... e silence filled the courtroom.

It took five seconds—five seconds of pure silence, five silly seconds—for the audience, for everyone present, to process the reality.

After those five seconds, as if a spell had been broken, Roland’s head separated from his body. The torso, once imposing, knelt slowly, like a felled tree, before collapsing to the ground with a heavy, dull thud. The sound of the head rolling across the stone floor, grotesque and unnatural, echoed through the courtro ...