CHAPTER 45 The same day at 4 p.m. at the sala of the Queen. After lunch, Elisha's afternoon was filled with individual meetings with the COUNCIL members. Not all of the thirty members requested a private audience, she only met with ten, and she knew those ten members were on her side. She made two major decisions that directly impact the nobles. She was anxious about how everything would turn out. Alik's day was also full of preparations. Now that the Queen had announced the mining restriction and the rights replacement, they were expecting the worst days to come. They were trying to draw the enemies out from their shells. He went to the Queen's room, and he found Phoebe wrapping up the day's activities with the Queen. Alik looked at Phoebe and asked, “How did they take it?” It had