The Inverted Cup had returned to its elegant tavern appearance, but beneath the polished surface, something far more complex was taking place. Veylith sat at her usual table, a cup of wine untouched before her, but her consciousness was spread across dozens of puppets throughout the capital.
Through the eyes of a servant in the Sun faction headquarters, she watched Lady Celestine Sunward pound her fist on the war council table. "The Moon faction has declared war on us!" the woman screamed. "We respond with overwhelming force!"
Simultaneously, through a merchant puppet in the Moon faction district, she observed Lord Theron Nightfall delivering his own inflammatory speech. "They killed Brightwater in broad daylight. This is about intimidation. We show them we cannot be intimidated!"
