章 2015: Switching Roles (Part 1)

Worst case scenario, Jirni would take the fall for Kamila's failure as a Constable and the other noble households would use it to undermine the Ernas' authority.

"All in favor to accept the deal with Verhen?" The King said while raising his hand.

The motion was unanimously approved. A future where beasts lived next door was scary for most of the members of the Royal Court and so was the idea of allowing oath breakers to join one of the highest institutions of the country.

Yet a hypothetical scary future was nothing compared to their dreadful present. If the Mad Queen won the war, their fiefs would be reduced to the few meters their bodies would take after being buried.

If something remained of them, of course.

***

Blood Desert, Heavenly Plume Palace, a few days later.