Sapphire waited silently in the middle of the room, waiting patiently for the Elders to acknowledge she’d accepted their invitation to convene. Since Sapphire had agreed to begin the process, her father had reached out to his father who in turn advised his brothers of the Chair she was ready to begin the process. The announcement had set off a frenzy of activity and the Hollorans and the Delaneys had begun to make good on some of the threats they’d each been uttering for millennia, and her grandfather was having a hell of a time keeping peace.
Now the Council, the gatekeepers to their world and the elders who ruled over all their kind, had requested an in-person meeting with Sapphire to discuss her decision and the expectations for the next steps. She knew it would involve a lot of time
