Chapter 485: Premarital Counseling
Tala and Rane sat in a beautiful, sequestered portion of the sanctum with Master Nadro.
It was common practice to ask the most powerful Archon well known to the couple to perform the ceremony, at least in traditional Archon weddings.
‘Known to the couple’ was meant to imply solid connection as well, not just passing acquaintance, and thankfully, Master Nadro qualified on all counts.
-Well, except that he’s not an Archon.- Alat teased.
Yeah, yeah. Tala amicably dismissed her alternate interface, but she appreciated the good-natured interaction, and Alat could obviously sense that.
All three were enjoying their beverages of choice, which Kit and Tala kept at the ideal fill-level and at the perfect temperature—both chosen by each drinker. The drink was, of course, drawn from large containers of pre-prepared beverages in the sanctum kitchen, but that was hardly pertinent.
The three were gathered for premarital counseling. Not only had Master Nadro insisted on it if he was to perform the ceremony, it was tradition. More than even that, however, it would be incredibly foolish for a couple to bind themselves together so tightly without having gone through such a basic process.
They’d already had deep soul-scans done—another prerequisite to a marriage done ‘correctly’—and Master Nadro was about to give them the results. Then, they simply had to talk through some requisite things, standard points of conflict that other couples had encountered, historically.
In this context, the discussions could be had with less tension and stress, and it would be easier for both parties to be heard out in full before the actual situations arose.