Burn: The Last Witness (part 29)

(The Midnight Hunt)
*With Burn busy killing Sumnaz and Varso, and with Kathryn deciding to confront Dannawthen in order to make amends for her mistakes, Elder Grayson goes to the Old One. The other Elders are in the midst of panic, or are desperate trying to get people out of the Citadel and up into the Majestic, but Grayson wants a different path. His own panic at finding out that the High Father was not on the throne of light has faded into anger. He followed the decree of the High Father for centuries. Sure, he and Kathryn went their own way...ignored certain decrees that the High Father made...but it turns out they were only ignoring orders from a leader who had abandoned them ages ago anyway so how could that ignoring ever have been that bad. Grayson no longer feels anything but contempt at all the time he wasted being an Elder, protecting a city that could have never been that good if the throne of light had no one on it, and he is ready. It's time to swear fealty to the other side, to beg the Old One for a place in it's service especially since that beast is already losing so many of its Original Corners of Midnight. But the Old One never thought it would lose Sumnaz and Varso, and when it feels that Kathryn has just killed Dannawthen the fate of Elder Grayson is assured. The Old One will not let him serve [AI Art]*