Chapter 12
Zhabon’s Feast
The members of the Highest Council, hastily gathered in the Session Hall, didn’t need to hurry since they've been sitting in complete silence for quite a while. The things were exactly the way junior advisor Hamnet reported: twelve trays with crockery accumulated in the dark of the tower waiting for Uncia to eat.
It would probably be sensible to dismantle the brickwork and make sure that Nothing didn’t vanish, and it was just her appetite that disappeared. But what if it was just another trick and the sly sorceress escaped, who'd be held responsible then? And no one wanted to be responsible.
The silence lasted so long that the secretary on duty, who was milling behind the door, dug his finger into his ear. It has reached its climax, when the man felt somebody’
