Chapter 26

• The dining room was bigger than the soup kitchen on the southside. It should have been called a dining hall, not room. I sat in the chair and looked at the wall, at some point there had been portraits hanging there. Many, if the dark spots were any indication.
• “Alona had them sent to the palace to be hung there again.” Autumn leaned closer and told me. “It was only proper, or something.”
• It made sense to me, I supposed. I glanced to the men at the other end of the table. “Are meetings always held in the dining room?”