Chapter 17 The Road To The Abyss

• The High Council chamber was a cauldron of shouting and panicked scents.
• "She cannot go! It is suicide!" Elder Vane slammed his fist onto the stone table, the sound echoing like a gavel. "The King is lost, and the Queen is the only thing standing between us and the extinction of the Sun bloodline. We must move her to the Sun-Vault immediately!"
• Anna stood at the center of the room, her human form draped in tactical leather, her expression as hard as the obsidian floors. She listened to them argue as if she were a piece of furniture, a "gilded prize" to be locked away for safekeeping.