Forty nine

“There has to be something done.” Isolde shouted into the mayhem of noise at the palace. After everybody had seen the circle, nobody wanted to remain there anymore, believing that the place was a cursed place and we all moved back to the palace to discuss and come up with new ways to handle what we just saw. 

I had honestly thought it was going to be handled rationally but as soon as we got to the council’s hall, hell broke loose as the council argued, each having different course of action for the Empire. 

Isolde own was that it could be fought. 

“How can you fight something that you cannot see?” Gogan said weakly. 

Me and Arius sat in a corner as we watch them haggle. 

“They think that they have the final say.” Arius whispered to me. “When they get this way which is only during crisis, the best thing for you to do is to let them exhaust their selves.” 

“Have you ever seen them like this?”  I asked Ar