Chapter 6
ISANDOR LOOKED around the table. It was time for the Knight Council meeting and once again everyone had gathered around the table. The news about the icefire flashes had created a stir around town and this time more people were in the public gallery, including a good number of people he had never seen in the audience before. They were noisier than usual, too, feeling the need to comment to each other after every speaker. They had now arrived at the main agenda point for the meeting.
Isandor didn’t mind the public’s scrutiny, but he felt the tension in every word spoken in the hall. Panic would break out if the patrols couldn’t bring good news.
He signalled Supreme Rider Barton to start on his report.
“The patrols I sent to the peninsula, the plateau and the mountains have all
