Breakfast the next morning ended up being as horrid of an affair as dinner had been, nearly topping the conversations that I had been forced to have with Dae later that night. The only thing that was different between then and now, was the fact that no one seemed to want to say anything—and I got the impression that it was all for different reasons. Even Elder Xara hadn’t said anything other than her initial greeting when she had come in. I was willing to admit that everyone’s behaviour was starting to make me uncomfortable. I was starting to wonder whether or not today’s meeting with he council would go in my favour, or whether the results would end up being as morbid as the atmosphere in here was. I wanted to be optimistic. I wanted to have hope and believe that everything would work o