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answered
immediately. “Aredelle and Vida have already spoken. And it would
be immensely inappropriate on all of their parts if they were to
continue as planned, considering the circumstances. Surely if the
time she’d been away was not so vast, perhaps the arrangement could
have been honored. But now?”
    “ No, I’m glad. I didn’t
like the idea of them getting married, anyway,” Sven
clarified.
    “ Wanted her all for
yourself?” Ziva said with narrow, but sarcastic eyes. Sven
smiled.
    “ You’re the only one for
me, Ziva,” he assured, placing his hand over his chest sincerely.
Ziva rolled her eyes as he sat back up in his chair. “But I don’t
think it’s a very good idea to have the only two respectable
Athenian kingdoms joining together. What would that mean for the
land? Would they attempt to move castles? Or have merely one? One
kingdom? Leaving people with no area to choose their whereabouts is
dangerous territory.”
    “ But there are people that
are not bound to either Kiran or Oisian. What of them?” Ziva
argued.
    “ I’m not talking about
them. Not all citizens of Kiran get along with citizens of Oisian,
and vice versa. And forcing them to coexist may do more harm than
good. Resulting on a lesser scale of either party deciding to leave
the kingdom altogether, or you could end up with kingdom-wide
violence.”
    “ I doubt it would come to
such a thing,” Sera scoffed, crossing her arms in
skepticism.
    “ And what would you call
the new kingdom? Kirasian ? Please . They’d have to combine kingdoms in order
for them to sit side by side on their thrones.” Sven shook his
head, waving his hand dismissively. “I just think it would have
been a big mess. And not to mention me not being a fan of the whole
arranged courtship thing.”
    “ Well I guess it’s been
avoided then,” Sera huffed. “I wonder how they’ll take the
news.”
    “ I’m sure Xander will be
jumping for joy, being a free man,” Sven laughed.
    “ And Saphora?” came
Ziva.
    “ Meh,” Sven shrugged. “If
what happened is still in any effect, I doubt she even remembers
being engaged.”
    “ Xander knew because he
was older,” Sera reasoned. “But I don’t think Vida had told Saphora
about it before she was sent away. She was barely a child, let
alone a young adult.”
    “ True,” Sven agreed. “She
probably doesn’t know.”
    “ I wonder what Vida will
do now,” Sera sighed. “I wonder what Saphora’s future will be
like.”
    “ Welp,” Sven sighed,
leaning back in his seat and reaching over the table to grab and
vine of grapes. “We’ll see after the war.”

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    “It’s not really just one person
leading,” Maverick explained to Xander. “Even though they’re the
present, they can’t make decisions by themselves. Other people have
to approve it.”
    “ What? ” Xander scoffed with narrowed eyes. He shook his head,
waving his hand in disapproval. “How is it that the man in power
must seek the approval of others? Does that not defeat the
purpose?”
    “ Kind of, I guess …
Especially since the people who have to approve never agree with
each other.”
    “ With each other? Why does
that matter?”
    “ Well – it’s
complicated.”
    “ That, human, is an
understatement.”
    Maverick laughed,
nodding.
    “ I know. I don’t really
fully understand it myself, either.”
    “ Madness,” mumbled
Xander.
    “ I like it here, though,”
Maverick admitted. “It seems a lot simpler. And people seem a lot
happier.”
    “ People are happy,” Xander
agreed, leaning back on the sofa bench that sat near the throne.
Maverick nodded.
    “ I hope I can
stay.”
    Xander arched a
brow.
    “ Why wouldn’t you be able
to?”
    Maverick snuck and glance
at Vida, who was still chatting with both Aredelle and Edmon.
Maverick’s eyes fell as he shook his head, trying to laugh it
off.
    “ You never know,
right?”
    “ Would you like someone to
tell you your future? We have people that can do that, you