Chapter 24 Dark And Dangerous

• About twenty minutes into the different speeches, Maya was pretty much convinced this event was tiresome as she predicted. After about three more speeches, each one taking about ten minutes of horrible joke-making and five of the actual oration, Maya was beat.
• Although, she wasn't going to admit that it was because she had scanned the hall more times than she could count, searching for him.
• He didn't show up and deep down, she was disappointed.