"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Please take your seats around the table."
In a room barely lit with anything other than a few flying orbs of magic, a feminine voice spoke from upstairs addressing a group of men and women standing in the great hall of a grand mansion.
While it was still day outside as the light came in from the far-off gate, shedding its luminance along the old dusty carpet that still retained some of its ancient crimson colors, the feeling inside the mansion was dark, humid, and ancient as if it was a closed tomb that remained that way for many long years.
