The ex-council members exchanged horrified glances, for all the years of work and everything they had ever wanted, were all now taken away from them in an instant, without much of a thought and there was nothing that any of them coulc do anout it since they brought the situation on themselves by betraying the crown and the members within the royal family, all over fleeting power, which was now further away from them than every before.
Everything they did, the mistake and the consequences were now slowly sinking in as they listened carefully to the king's word, without much of a protect and their gazes fixed on the floor in shame, no longer able to meet the stern look of the king, all of their confidences were now completely shattered.