Twenty-four hours before Duke Grant and his army marched on the Myriad Castle, Mark and the council members had a meeting concerning the coming battle, and after Mark told them his plans to meet with Duke Grant, things immediately went south.
"My lord, this is madness! We cannot have a reasonable conversation with these monsters! Trying to do something like this is playing right into their hands! These Angels have been the source of pain for us for years! If we make them think that we are weak, then they will try to kill even more of our people!"
Riger spoke up loudly and gesticulated erratically as he tried to make Mark change his mind about the plans for tomorrow. The members of the council, as well as Arit, were standing around the council meeting room and looking at Mark. They had only just heard Mark's plan to meet with the Duke recently and were still trying to digest it.
