The banquet hall sat in an extravagant, glorious palace. When they entered, they saw a line of beautiful ladies tasked with greeting guests and leading them to their seats.
The place was like a staircase: there were levels with tables and chairs, divided by importance at the banquet.
At the highest point were two seats — Painita and Morion, already seated. Below them were the twelve seats of the most influential Elders of the royal family. Then there was a large table with twenty places; the princes and princesses sat in that circle.
Lower down, almost a hundred seats held the Generals and Supreme Generals of the royal family. On the leveled area sat the other guests.
Tetoya recognized many faces and narrowed her eyes. Darian also noticed: a procession of nearly thirty humanoids was coming — elves, dwarves, orcs, and a rare humanoid race called the Fey. There were also humans, and Darian sensed by their auras that they were from the Wube family; they all stared at him coldly.
