01.04.2020

Ohm and I put on our best duds and head over to the palace, time for the Consilium to convene. When we get there it's still early and only a few of the council have showed. We notice two seats assigned for us and we go and sit. As the council comes in we notice they are all dressed in robes and shit. Apparently there was a dress code we didn't know about. Then again this is our first council meeting and normally only the higher ups in the Consilium are invited, so I'm sure we are excused from that little oversight. They sit and shoot the shit for a while, barely glancing our way but when they do they don't look happy. I'm sure they don't like that us youngins had the pull to get the Lady Abigail call the council to session. Eventually they begin and ask us to present our findings. Ohm and I start from the beginning, explain everything we knew about the cops being replaced originally, all about or tests the other day, and what we found at the academy yesterday. First they responded that they already knew about the spell on the cops and had come to the same conclusion we did. They recognized the imbued item used in the casting, it was an artifact known as the Atlantian Nexus. That seemed like all we were going to get from them until they glanced at each other and nodded. They then began to tell us what else they found. The spell currently on the cops was being used to filter out the supernaturals because the cops were looking for a sleeper. There was another spell hidden extremely well underneath the filter one. It was a life spell that was looking for a specific sleeper dna signature and this spell had Donovan's signature on it. Well that explains why this was only on cops, easiest way to get eyes all over the city. We inquired about what the next step was. It was then decided that the council would work on attaching their own spell to the cops. A spell that would alert them when the cops found who they were looking for. Hopefully then we could get to this person before Donovan did. We don't know who or what this sleeper is for but with the amount of effort Donovan put into this, that sleeper must be very important for whatever he has planned. The council talked some more about other matters and then closed the meeting. As we were leaving Kraven caught up with us. He was quite surprised the council trusted us with the additional information they had. Of course we asked why would it be a surprise and he told us they didn't trust us very much. More specific they didn't trust me. They say I have all the same signs that Donovan had when he was a young mage. I was speechless. Sure I may be a bit prideful and even a little arrogant, but I've never stepped across the line. Always kept things in check. I've only been a mage for less than a year, what the hell do they know? With that it was time to go to the bar, I really needed a drink.

Danno met us at the bar and we told him what the council had told us. We then started talking about the council's view of me. I couldn't see where they were coming from. I had expected my friends to stick up for me but apparently they have been harboring the same thoughts as the council. I was getting a little angry now. I asked them to give me concrete examples of when I let my pride get the best of me, or let it endanger them or the mission. Nothing but crickets. Even though they couldn't support the council's view on me that didn't seem to change theirs either, Feh.

Cygin

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What a fucking night. Honestly I don't really give a shit what the council thinks but my friends agreeing with them, that actually hurts. I have never denied the fact that I am prideful, never denied that I have a very strong ego. I've never hidden any of this from them. Oh sure I may have joked along the way because it's easier to deal with this crazy ass shit with humor. But I have never followed through on any of those jokes. I have never once put myself or anyone else in danger because of my ego or pride. Sure I have crossed that fine line between confidence and arrogance on a few occasions. I've never claimed to be perfect. But even though my so called friends couldn't themselves come up with any examples of why they should be wary of me turning into fucking Donovan, they still believe it. Even after I told them that the reason I went on my astral journey a few months ago was to answer that question myself. And in that astral journey was the Lady Abigail herself (i didnt realize it at the time). I asked her what was going to stop me from becoming like Donovan and she simply pointed at my silver wolf guide and said her. I knew that Kat was my anchor. I knew from that point on that my pride would be trying to push me off the path and I knew that I wouldn't let it. That Kat wouldn't let it. And even after I have showed that this was true. Even after I tell them about my astral journey. They still side with the council. It makes me angry and sad. All though there is a humorous bit of irony to all this. If you look at all the stories of the evil guy. This is always how he starts out. Never completely trusted by his friends and family and then one day they push him too far and he becomes the evil guy. If the jedi's would have just trusted that Annikin could deal with his love and his job, would there have been a Darth Vader?

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