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"Huh." Chloe vocalized as soon as you left the eatery.
"Indeed." You nod. Perhaps you should have expected something like that? A lot of people saw what happened, it was to be expected the word would get out.
For a while you walked in silence before your half elven companion spoke up again. "What do you think this council is going to be about? Humans finally recognizing the mercenaries as their enemy?"
"That seems likely. With Celestine challenged this brazenly in the open, there could be no doubt that the Black Dog company has ambitions to topple their order."
"But why ask for you specifically, then? Isn't it something they would rather deal with without self admitted agents of her majesty?"
"That is something we're going to find out. Perhaps they take us seriously enough to ask for our input?" You muse, although as soon as the words leave your mouth you begin to doubt it. Even if the princesses you've befriended were willing to talk with you, it didn't seem likely whatever political body Celestine was meeting could be expected to care for whatever a monster would tell them.
Then again, Celestine would not have you invited without a reason. She knows you do have things to do.
You pick up the pace; rest of the trip passes in silence. Before long you make it to the cathedral compound where one of the clerks directs you to where the council is meant to be taking place.
Eventually you find yourself walking down a relatively wide, well kept corridor decorated with paintings, tapestries and statues. If your sense of orientation serves you, you're not too far away from office where you had met councilor Rowan all those days ago, and are briefly reminded of the man's current circumstances. If it turns out it was Beast's corruption that drove him to his ill conceived assassination attempt, what implications would his repentance have for his ultimate fate?
For now though these thoughts are set aside as among the people mulling around before they walk through wide richly decorated door into a hall were some you recognized, and they recognized you in turn.
