The library fell into a concentrated silence after the decision. Not the comfortable silence of people resting after a long conversation, but the kind of charged stillness that arises when everyone realizes they have just crossed an invisible line. Until a few hours ago, there was still the possibility that this was just a localized political dispute, an internal crisis within House Arven. Now that illusion was gone. They were organizing an operation to wrest control of one of the kingdom's most powerful families from the hands of a paranoid, violent woman possibly involved with mind-control magic.
And worse.
They would do it quickly.
