No Other Choice
There were four sitting around a table, all looking identical while being speechless at the same time. And on the table they were sitting around was a blue powered orb. The whole four weren't unknown beings as they were the elders left in the Realm of Nowhere.
Lucian, the keeper of the Time Manipulation core, wasn't looking too good as it stared at the other four. They had forcefully summoned it to a meeting, and as much as it didn't want to be here with them, who was it to say no to their call? It would be like rebelling against the whole council as each and every one of them had equal rights.
It had been agitated for a very long time now and it obviously hadn't been in a right frame of mind. The agitation was as a result of not being able to find a solution to what was bothering it, which was to find a way to go about the mission that had been bestowed upon it a long time ago. The mission had gone through a little bend after something had gone wrong.