Chapter 154 - 154. THE COUNCIL: THE DESERT ASSEMBLY

The old guardians had all felt it, even long before the Sand Regent called for a meeting. The Sand Regent controls the desert trade routes and nomadic war tribes. No army crosses the southern deserts without their permission. Their scouts are said to move through the dunes like ghosts. Yet something bizarre had kept him and his scouts out of the desert for the first time. The desert had stirred violently before an even bigger tragedy befell it. It had rained in the desert. It might have been a sign of tragedy, or perhaps the desert was weeping because of the absence of someone who always stood at its centre. Was the rain tears of joy or tears of anger?