While the council members were quietly thinking about how they could showcase their clans' capabilities during the mourning period, Prince Erevan Brontes Lychos was thinking of how to end the meeting as quickly as possible and go inform his mother.
Though, as High Luna of the werewolves, she had every right to know about her husband's death before anyone else, Erevan feared she might not be able to control herself. If she broke down, the news would likely spread through the palace staff and leak to the public before the council officially concluded their session.