Lady Faye responded with a disdainful roll of her eyes, then blew him a kiss before strutting out of the room without looking back, her hips swaying tantalizingly. Lady Lyria, who hadn't moved since rising from her throne, flashed a rueful smile at Valandar and the other Saints, then excused herself from the room.
Once the two chosen envoys had departed, a heavy silence fell over the council room, quickly shattered by Kaelum's sarcastic spit.
"Don't tell me you're going to let him just walk away like that?" The Titan of Vrax, silent until now, couldn't contain his contempt. "If that's all the Celestial and the famed Saints of the Radiant Conclave amount to, maybe we should just exterminate you here and now since you apparently lack the courage to face a single enemy!"