Penny who had only been standing out to step inside made up a quick lie, "I came here to supervise the church by Damien's words," she could always lie in the name of Damien as she knew Damien would go along with it without a question. She had forgotten that even though everyone in this room knew that she was a white witch, to the rest of the outside world, she was a plain human who had enticed a pureblooded vampire after being bought as a slave.
"You need the council's order. Do you have the parchment for it for assurance that it was from the council and has been approved?" Evelyn asked the woman, looking down on Penny as she was not a councilwoman.
But Penny was already well versed in the little time she had spent here and in Valeria on how the council worked. She often asked Damien and he told her about what was going on in the council and how things worked there in the beginning when she was still thinking about taking part in the examination.
