It's been a week since Alexa and Isadora's conversation. Isadora kept to her word and told the council about what Alexa told her. The council was skeptical and kept trying to refute Alexa's vision, but half of the council chose to give her the benefit of the doubt. Mostly those who were close to Alexa's grandmother, so they put in a word for her. Thanks to them, the council didn't shut Alexa down.

She met with them in the hall of benevolence. The hall was a large dome-like room. She ...