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Chapter Eighty Six
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2026-07-18 09:35:40Chapter Eighty Six
POV: Kael DravonThe council meeting was at midday and I arrived early because arriving early to things that mattered was a habit I had never managed to break and I sat at the head of the elder's council table and looked at the empty room around me and thought about everything that had changed in the past seventy two hours and what it meant for everything that came after it.The bond was real. That was the thing I kept returning to
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