TWELVE
BACK IN the reign of Woden, the Council of Power was kept more polished and plush, full of ornamental flourishes, silk veils strewn up on the ancient stone walls, abundant colors brought in to distract from the cold rock beneath. By order of the President, the fortress palace was maintained in a palatial state.
Dragomir had no use for such decoration. Dominion over the rising and ever-more powerful multitudes of armed humans is what concerned him.
At the periodic Supernatural gathering, an affair held each couple of years, all of the earth's Supers attended. So many faces and forms populated the Great Hall that the collection was said to alter the gravitational field and weather patterns across continents. Human satellites performed erratically, and the magnetic shield, which sur
