Chapter 135: Interlude - Kordia - Part 3
"What do you mean four?" Kordia’s mother snapped at her.
Before Kordia could speak, Fruhe had deployed a fan to cover what was obviously a smile. "Isn’t it obvious, cousin? She’s standing aside from your clan."
Professor Lumin cleared her throat. "Guests," she put an emphasis on the word that, to Kordia’s ears, might as well have been her calling them ’bitches.’ "Let me do what I have been trying to do and bring Kordia up to date."
Both of her guests remained quiet, their sparring rising into their eyes now that they’d chosen not to use their mouths.
Lumin looked at Kordia squarely. "Kordia, with the perditions opening over the Lakelands, many nations are consolidating alliances they didn’t think they’d need for years. Heaven has put its sanction behind Gra’Rhuel to unite the clans of the west and north. I have been tasked, by their representative, as a mediator to determine your optimal placement for the good of the continent."
Kordia’s ear twitched nervously. Her engagement shouldn’t have been a big deal. She thought she’d have years before... but then again so did everyone else. Her letter home had set in motion something she hadn’t anticipated...
Based on how little she’d been interfered with despite knowing about Kir, it seemed that Heaven had bided their time to use this meeting instead... Which meant they’d been watching her and her family or had intercepted her letter.
She was being maneuvered... and no one here was going to give up on controlling her future.
"What does everyone want?" Kordia asked.
Lumin spoke again, "I would prefer you conclude your training at the Academy, and then spend some time under an Archmage or High Witch, before proceeding with your role in this alliance," she gestured. "With a time limit of the present Heavenswar, assuming it lasts after your graduation."
Kordia looked to Fruhe, "And you, Matron?" she asked.