**Baron—Elephant Music**
With the news of the Velmoria Wide meeting spreading like wildfire across the nation, the court of Thalor was busier than it had ever been.
Particularly because its envoys still hadn't concluded on which of them should be sent to escort Vaskor and its very cranky twelve elders across Andals seas all the way to Thalor in the South.
Three days of the same debacle and debate happening over and over again in the king's court was quite tiring. Yet Ember sat through all of it the picture of boredom and the very image of a Princess Royal who didn't quite know how to distinguish her left from her right.
After yawning through three court sessions, the rumours that Elara Thorne was nothing but an airhead beauty had intensified. Her claim as Princess Royal was bashed into the ground anew, even while she received backhanded compliments on how fashionable she always looked when she appeared in the king's court.
