The Fourth Elder's sudden outburst stunned the entire council chamber into silence, as the sheer volume and unrestrained emotion in his voice, forced even the most outspoken of elders to momentarily still their tongues out of deference, if not to the man himself, then to the fire that so rarely ignited within the hallowed halls of this otherwise composed and measured assembly.
He spoke with a fury seldom witnessed within these walls, where civility and protocol were usually maintained regardless of the situation, and perhaps because of that, the others chose to remain quiet, not out of agreement, but out of curiosity—curiosity to see just how far he would go.
