บท 417: Act IV: Time shall resume | Of all people

FEBRUARY, 17 YEARS AND 2 MONTHS UNTIL THE STARSPAWN INVASION

It was truly a pleasure to return to more familiar places, as exciting as new ones could be. It was also great to meet friends with whom you were separated by time, even if it was for practical reasons.

There was a lot of delight in simply sitting in a private booth of a restaurant, eating delicious pasta with expensive wine, and talking about both pleasure and business.

Two people were there with him today, sharing the opposite side of the rectangular table. One of them wasn't in Cael's original invitation plans, but in the end, he was useful. And occasionally infuriating.

"…And that was how the entire trip tied up," Cael concluded his retelling of the journey to the North Pole with a chuckle. "We had to stay another month, of course, to finish the transfer of power to the new king of Freistaat, and I also used the opportunity to read books from Eichenwald's library… But in short, that was it."