Re: [Cepheus]
[ there are more than a dozen others in the lounge-- mostly Cephean, though there are a couple of Orionites among them, and a lone Delph of some rank broods in one corner. Some of them are availing themselves from a selection of time-passers in the bookcase, others fidgeting with impatience on the sofas. ]
[ the ornate grandfather clock ticks away the minutes, then the hours. Now and again the doors to the Council Chambers open to admit a stone-faced steward, calling on the next name, and someone else not the Oracle follows him through. ]