Chapter 35 The Law Broken

• The Council had agreed to see Kael within the day. He’d told Emily that morning it was a small mercy, even if the actual hearing was still a week away—buried under the kind of red tape that usually governed supernatural politics. A week felt like nothing and everything at the same time. They were just standing there, waiting for a danger they finally understood to make its next move.
• It happened on Wednesday evening, three days into the wait.
• Emily was finishing up a chart at the nurses' station when the first alarm went off. It wasn't the usual trauma alert she’d gotten used to at St. Aurora; this was sharper, more frantic. It was a klaxon she’d only heard once before, during a mandatory drill during her first week on the job.