They didn't wait.
Reya stormed into the Council chambers with her battle robes ignited in flame. "If you touch him, you'll burn."
Liora threatened her own mother—Lady Quinn, a sitting Matron. Mina hacked the academy records to erase the decree. Zarya poisoned a high priestess with a kiss and laughed as she vomited Ether in the garden.
Celes walked into the armory and took her family's ancestral blade.
They weren't rivals now.
They were his.
And when they stood together in front of Kael's cell, Council guards flinched.
Zarya smiled.
"Guess the harem's got teeth now."