"Ara won't go anywhere. She is going to stay right in the temple." Dmitri's stern voice made everyone quiet. He gazed from Anastasia to Ileus to Nate, Paige, Kaizan and the rest of the councilmen. He had been listening to them for some time now and wasn't liking the flow of the conversation.
"What about Paige?" asked one of the councilmen. "She should be punished for harboring a rebel."
"I didn't know that she was a rebel when I met her!" Paige replied.
"So what?" the councilman snapped back at her. "You should have checked her background. You are the sister of the General of Silver Vales. Don't you understand the repercussions of one wrong move? And what you did was colossally wrong!"
