FAYE
I slouched a little in my chair, trying not to make it obvious that I was fighting the urge to yawn. These elders could talk about absolutely nothing for hours and still manage to make it sound like the fate of the world depended on it.
I didn’t even know why I was here. They’d woken me up from the best nap I’d had in days, telling me that I needed to represent Alexander in an “urgent council session.”
Urgent, my foot.
I glanced around the table again, letting my eyes move over each of the elders. They were debating some minor political issue I couldn’t care less about—something that could have easily waited until tomorrow’s regular council meeting. That was how it had always been done since I arrived here. Morning sessions, structured, predictable. Never this kind of ambush in t
