The second that Darian talked, the voices stopped, and a quiet waiting ensued. Are they going to attack? Where were they hiding- and what clever fool thought it’d be a good idea to simulate an environment that Darian and Gabriel have been in since they were children?

I was seriously reconsidering the collective intelligence of the highly esteemed Council that we’d been fooled into revering all our lives. 

But we were still on their territory and somewhere in this gigantic ...