“It ill-befits this noble council for half its number to bay like a pack of dogs. Possession.” Tekoa cast the word in their direction and it sobered his enemies at once. There were a number of cardinal sins to a subject of the Black Kingdom. Foremost was self-pity. Then perhaps jealousy. Second to these alone was possession: acting as part of a mob, rather than as an individual. Allowing base emotions like hatred, scorn and even adulation to cloud one’s judgement and turn one into an unproductive, unthinking animal.
