**The Game Is Afoot—Eternal Eclipse**
"Announcing before the Five, Her Royal Highness of the Huntsmen, the Princess Royal Elara Thorne. Daughter of the ruby seal, and special envoy from Thalor."
The opulent doors to a dark room were drawn open, while Ember entered, accompanied by Giaus and Aaron who were serving as the Official Compiler and Assistant Envoy respectively.
This room was different from the last, and instead of a round table, the Five sat around a square table, each of them wearing varying looks of boredom as if they couldn't wait to be done with what was sure to be a dreary meeting.
And even though she had never met them in person, she could almost make out who was who just by the description she had of them. Was she a bit tense? Maybe. But after all the careful planning and plotting she had done before she entered the room, she was quite confident that her chance at success had far exceeded the fifty percent Madam Valkarian had pinned it.
