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... He stood there with his staff grounded against the stone, the hieroglyphs along his arms dim but watchful, until the courtyard slowly remembered where it was and who stood before it. One by one, voices died, breaths steadied, and eyes lifted to look at him.

Only then did he speak.

"Silence."

The word landed like a seal.

"You have all witnessed the ranking," Elder Hakar said evenly. "But rankings alone do not determine one’s future in the Shadow Fang Sect."

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