Elder Ulric Consalvo's betrayal cut Aakifahlynn the deepest out of the four council members.

They had developed quite a friendship, and seeing HIM there had shaken her to her core because, out of the four council members that betrayed her, he was one of them who was always polite, welcoming, and mostly agreeing with her.

Aakifahlynn even helped his wife once, healing her from a plague-like disease that threatened to take countless lives in its wake.

Well, she did not actually heal his wife. She had learned how to absorb the dark plague-like energy, but she needed to transfer it to another source, and the couple's dying pig did the...