What happened after that was a flurry of events which barely registered. I flew around like a headless chicken trying to get the people who Valens couldn't get in touch with. The elders had been alerted but some of them fell off the grid. The borders had been secured, Valens and Jabari in a meeting while I gathered the other elders.

"Elder Malek?" I asked Luna Levana who was running around with me.

"A traitor."

"There's still one elder left that I haven't been able to contact." I sank into my seat, my back aching along with my feet.

"Is it the Elder that was taken to the dungeons this...