He urgently summoned all the elf officers at the harbor, including the two head instructors.
In the meeting room, he slammed the message down on the table with a thunderous bang. "The council's debate has finally reached a conclusion. We lost! We lost utterly! The king and the Silvermoon Council's infiltrators have completely betrayed the people of Quel'Thalas! They voted with the traitors. They want Quel'Danil to secede from Quel'Thalas!"
The officers paled in shock and passed the message around. Once everyone had read it, the paper returned to Yu Lin Bloodhawk.
"Why would they do this?" a Gryphon Rider officer shouted angrily. "This does Quel'Thalas no good at all!"
No one answered his question. Even if someone knew the reason, they would not voice it in such a setting. The meeting room was eerily quiet.
"I'll tell you why!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said, looking at the Gryphon Rider officer. "Because they want absolute control. Because they want a place where their word alone is law. They don't want a Quel'Danil they cannot completely control, even if that harms the interests of the people of Quel'Thalas.
"To them, it makes no difference whether Quel'Danil exists or not. It's merely a little territory carved out abroad by an exiled former baron. If they can't control it, they would rather discard it!"
The Gryphon Rider officer fell into a stunned silence. All the elf officers listened quietly, and not one offered an opinion.
"But they don't understand that the people of Quel'Thalas need Quel'Danil's land! This isn't merely an exiled noble's domain. It belongs to all the people of Quel'Thalas!
"Why did I plant so many fruit trees across that great expanse of the Seaside Plain? Why did I require every village to be built in the elf style? Because I feared