"They cannot stay here. This is our district! It is not our burden that their homes have been destroyed!" Rivok declared loudly to the crowd gathered in the institution yard.
The moment he had walked away from the refugees at the palace gates, he had ordered several of his trusted lieutenants to summon an emergency assembly at the Eclouxerra Institution of Magic.
He refused to wait another day to secure his grip on the region. Rivok had no intention of letting outsiders settle in District One. With the throne sitting vacant for the first time in history, anyone could step forward to claim authority, and he saw this chaos as his ultimate opportunity to taste true power.
