A Cripple?

The shock was palpable.

No one here was a fool. In order for them to even listen to such a mysterious figure in the first place, they had to have displayed an adequate level of power, one that made the Four Great Families wary at the very least.

They dared to make an enemy of Gervaise, and that was enough to speak about their level of overall power. For them to choose to team up with someone who had tampered with their Heirlooms instead of going all out to eradicate them, one could imagine the level of strength this shadowy figure had to have displayed.

How could such a person's suggestion be overridden so easily?

That was just the first problem. A far more shocking thing was the implication that, in order to destroy the suggestion in the first place, it had to be found. That was a whole other layer of difficulty.