DEMIR I excused myself early from the meeting that wasn’t going anywhere. No matter how much we pushed, the White Archipelago folk wasn’t going to give us Lara. And even though I was sure that her so-called brother would be resistant from the very beginning, I was surprised by the fact that their leader Marten was of the same opinion. But why? Lara told me that she was some kind of an outcast here once. And I thought that they wouldn’t care if I asked for her hand in marriage in exchange for a peace treaty. A big miscalculation on my part… Even though everyone seemed shocked when her brother announced that they were getting married, Keatar got over himself pretty quickly and was more for them being together than for her going to the Gerdian Empire with me. And I start to believe that

