Emily
I walked into the meeting hall with my head held high, ignoring the questioning gazes of the other council members. I went to my father’s seat and made myself comfortable.
I had attended these meetings with him as a child and snuck into others as a teen, but this was my first time here as an adult, and I felt a bit nervous sitting amongst the other family heads.
“Where’s your father?” Lionel asked from his seat.
“He regrets being absent at a time as sensitive as this, but he would like everyone present to know that I would be a great representative in his stead.”
I had intentionally left out the part where my mother had pressured him into letting me be his representative. She had succeeded in getting him to agree, stating that if I were to be Ragnar’s Luna, then I needed to know
