Re: [Cepheus]
[ the deliberative seat of the Council is a semicircular hall of carved wood and marble, rows of seats and long curved tables sloping upward from the speaker's floor at the center, where the chairman stands before a podium. On the wall behind hangs a banner of the Crowned King and his sceptre, gold embroidered on royal purple, Man For Man written in Archaic below. ]
[ as the chairman reads out the next item, the eyes of some of the fifty councilmen turn to the newest arrival with varying expressions of interest or suspicion. ]