An Extra’s POV

Whispers echoed as Rey, Kara, and Esme trailed behind Gratiana who led them.

The rest of the Elves had dispersed, as ordered by their Big Sis. As a result, they playfully went around the Community to see their friends or have fun.

Were they worried about their Elder? Yes.

However, more than that emotion, the excitement they felt was an overriding force for them. They wanted to hate their experiences with the sisters they had in the Community.

The Dungeon Experience, their new perspective on Nature… and the kind of person the man who just entered the city was.

All of this, along with their child-like personalities, made them almost forget Gratiana and her fate, as they trailed off, leaving Rey and his allies to be her only escorts.

Or rather, she was theirs.

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"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!"

The High Elder's shriek nearly caused all the Esteemed Elders to wince, despite being used to how hysterical she could be at times.

Usually, they would internally caution her to display more decorum and composure, but none of those thoughts were in their mind at the moment. Right now, all the members of the Esteemed Council couldn't help but agree with the words and actions of the High Elder.

All of them were wondering the same thing.

Gratiana La Shanagari, one of the most committed of all the Elves in the Community, had done the one thing that no other rebel had ever managed to do.

to this sacred place? To our haven? To

silent, her hands behind her back as her head was bowed. This reminded her of when she was still a Young One and almost gave in to her lust for killing; nearly

earful from an Esteemed Elder at the time,

than anyone, Gratiana understood the severity of her

place, filled with the sacred people of Nature—the Elves. The same way Elves couldn't taint themselves by interacting with other races, the Elves couldn't

of their civilization, despite very few Elves breaking the first rule—traveling to the

Yet… she did that!

not abominable—to the very

on you, Gratiana! Shame on you!" The High Elder spat in anger, sadness, and

similar emotions, though the intensity of the respective kinds of feelings differed depending

Elders, however, was an

her face, there wasn't any other

Gratiana explain herself? She isn't one to act in such

most

not one to act in such a manner, yet you brought disgrace to the Esteemed Council by leading the Youngs under your charge astray as you journeyed to

almost in exhaustion. The people in this room never missed any opportunity they had to remind her of her

That again! Do you not realize that it could be because of your

assumption." Aurora spoke back with a

in an empty abode right outside the hall of the Elders,

were moist with

ones, O'

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[Meanwhile]

thou calleth me

the devastation that surrounded them. They all