None but himself? Well, it's not a surprise, really. Nobody else ever tried to step forward. A few suggestions about a council had been made, but then nobody really took the lead on that either. Fine with him, really. Too many interested would just mean butting heads.

"At least it's easy to manage as we are with how few of us are here," he says, pausing for another drink of the wine. "Of course, there's that kid who turned up while we were out, too. Diode."