Only one Brotherhood member inside the Elders' Chamber hadn't seated for the whole conversation, instead only stared at the picture of one of his dearest friends and hardest losses, Elder Pedro Maniaco. Skyelius had laughed and looked back towards the others when the Benitez cube harassed one of his brothers, felt anger and closed his eyes when hearing the way Benitez acted towards latest matters, and bowed his head down sadness when he received the message from his brother, Costello. Instead of opening his mouth, he only closed his fist and put his other hand in his pocked, and grabbed a memo he had written shortly after his talk with Zavier. He put it in a table in the middle of the room and stopped walking right at the exit door. He half-looked back at this brothers who were looking at him, wondering what would happen next. Instead, he sighed, and said a short sentence in the most soft and low voice he had spoken before in his life.
"I'm sorry..", Sky said as he finished walking out of the Elder's Chambers and out from view. Soon afterwards, Elder Yanez picked up the memo, which indicated that he was tired about brothers leaving, in his view playing a very dangerous game in response to the biggest and gravest problem Crete had yet faced. In his last sentence he asked Costello to think over it and trust him, stating they all had less than one day to get together again. He didn't even mention solving the problem, only giving example of the unconditional Brotherhood they were suppposed to be members of, and stated his wish for all to be there by tomorrow, in the docking ring outside their planet. Having made all this clear, and Raul about to close the memo, the screen switched to a text specifying Skyelius' most recent agreement with Benitez, the ranks chart.
:TBH(Benitez)-:> Brother(Soldato), Centurion(Centurion), Tribune(Praetor), Elders(Elder)
:Benitez family exclusive, no effect on general Corsairs-:> Consul(family leader's advisor), Commander(family leader).
"As the most prominent family, our Benitez brothers probably have the strongest military than any other Corsair family. Results of this fact include most of them have more individual power than many Corsairs and some brothers in The Brotherhood, making them more prepared to command a century of their brethren within the same family, which after a census I determined there are slightly more than two thousand Corsairs bearing Benitez bloodline. However our tradition since our beginning states that although only a maximum of 20 families of Crete (out of its tens of thousands) can simultaneously bear one of its members as an Elder in the Council of Elders, never one family has more than one Elder in the council. Eldership is an honor, but not the most important position an individual could achieve in a lifetime. A hero is, in my opinion, and although I have protected Crete with all my power, I have refused the position of Elder more than twice. It pains me to take such rash decision as to force you to come together again or face my resign, but I have no other weapon but this final action. You are the bravest soldiers I have fought alongside with, but if you cannot come together, bring back Costello, and prove that no matter what tries to tear us apart we will always be brothers, I cannot set foot on Crete again."
With everyone on the Council now silent, the ground suddenly shook, indicating the launch of the Black Emerald towards the infinite darkness of space..
"It is a cold universe until you know God as your Father, and then it becomes a home. Even the next life simply becomes the Father's house, home."
—David Pawson
