Peace Pact

Slowly, almost unnoticeably, Mark began to see a change in the room's atmosphere. The tense, violent aura that had once been present was slowly starting to bleed away and give way to a more platonic and neutral aura that could only have been born from mutual respect.

The more senseless requests from both sides had already been scrapped out from the documents, so there were only more sensible requests to be considered now, and everyone was starting to see that these requests were things that could be easily fulfilled if they only made a bit of a compromise.

They were still shouting at each other and talking rudely, but they were no longer refuting all of each other's claims anymore.