Quiet filled the circle in the moments before the arrival of the assembled Magi of the Sacrament. Carved and painted words, sayings and quotes meant to inspire, raced along the walls. It was late afternoon, and the mid summer sun fell through the stained glass windows in ribbons of multicolored light. For most, the Gothic architecture of the Circle of Creation was familiar and awe inspiring with it's vaulted ceilings and rib architecture. For others, the place was intimately familiar: a place to train, live, and grow. For a few, however, the place was unfamiliar, known only in passing as one of the keystone bastions of the embattled Consilium of the Sacrament.
The floors, sparkling and cleaned, were to once again play host to the machinations of the Wise. Each trying to get a leg up over each other in the never ending push-pull of the fight over Magic itself.
Today was to be different. A buzz ripped through the Wise of the Sacrament. Excitement, trepidation, weariness, and apathy all mixed with the knowledge that the Circle was to be the venue for a Duel Arcane. A month prior, the challenge was laid – Aquinas of the Vox Draconis, a former apprentice to the former Hierarch Peter Cartright challenged Avalon, who up till that moment, was thought to be their Apostate Hierarch. A woman who could cultivate the relationships with every Order. This, from all accounts, did not happen.
The challenge that was inevitable. Most of the weary members of the Consilium have long been expressing their displeasure of their 'absentee' Hierarch in private. All the while privately bemoaning the mess that their Consilium has become. In this, the revelation that Avalon was actually a member of the Visus Draconis and sent by San Francisco, made sense.
However, a Consilium without Concord was no Consilium. The more paranoid among them, thought this was what San Francisco wanted all along.
Pride, however, would not let Avalon simply step down.
So the Challenge was accepted and the Circle was prepared for the arrival of Sacramento's Consilium.
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