Kyran's eyes narrowed after the woman unhesitatingly revealed who she was. He recognized her name from the Conclave's record Stella had showed him.
The Aureole faction had a rocky relationship with the Royal Army, especially with those stationed in the north, Deputy Marshal Ingrid's force. There was a rumor that the feud between Deputy Marshal Ingrid and the Head of Aureole, named Lauren, stemmed from when the former was only a General and tried to recruit the latter when she was only a new graduate. Lauren rejected Ingrid's invitation saying, she did not want to submit to someone weaker than her. When Ingrid heard that, she felt insulted, afterwich she did everything within her power to hinder Lauren's progress. Apart from that, in just a short ten years, Ingrid became a Deputy Marshal and was given jurisdiction over the the northern part of the Ylfaen Empire.
I have to cut the chapter here. I didn't realize It's already more than the word count I promised.
I'll see if I can upload the next one in a few hours, though.