When a witch defects from the Vale to Dragonia, she will be made to drink the elder dragon's blood which will ensure her loyalty, and a tattoo mark of the elder dragon shall be embedded on her chest to signify that indeed, she is a defected one.
-The Book on Witches Defection by Elara Stormward.
In the Primarch's office, five figures all wore different expressions of hate, exasperation, and amusement as no one said anything but watched the other each seated.
Most peculiar about the scene was how three of the five gathered were defectator witches, and none of them looked to be happy with the other.
Alakan Bristom, a particularly mysterious man with an equally mysterious motive, tapped his finger to a beat that was in sync with the music he was currently humming.
The putrid silence grew so much that the Primarch, who was usually an epitome of fierce patience, couldn't take it anymore.
