Riekan returns to the feast

The news his father had just dumped on him still troubling him, Riekan stepped into the ballroom and his gaze immediately scanned the room to see if any changes had occurred while he was away.

Adallis was talking to Reywan, a kind smile on their oldest brother’s face as she chuckled. Tina was standing by the wall directly behind Reywan’s wheeled chair and Vestia stood guard nearby them. Roghan and Cecilie were joined at the hip, chatting animatedly with Tolfin Crowslaw, the head of the Zabrar Clan, and other Kinwaldian advisors, but the emissaries from Arcans and Anglurea were sitting on their respective assigned tables. General Radus and Zaax were observing the room from opposite sides, swords ready at their sides. Out of curiosity, Riekan looked for Sarine, but he didn’t find the future Queen of Falbrein until his eyes fell on the lone figure standing on the balcony at the other side of the ballroom. Shifting his gaze back to the interior of the room, he instantly caught sight of Cecilie’s younger sister staring at him from the table she was sitting in the company of the Lord and the Lady Volness.

Riekan suddenly felt an urge to go dance, only if just to take his father’s words off his mind for a little while. His green eyes circled the ballroom once more, wondering who he was going to ask for a dance.