#!!amaya

She gives a momentary start, but by the time she can make out the stranger’s face looking at her, she is composed again. « Who are you? »

Amaya has never been one to show favouritism. And, sure, perhaps she doesn’t supervise every final exam. But the fact that she has a deep-seated mistrust for magic users has no bearing on the fact that she chose to watch the last challenge of the son of Katolis’s High Mage. Soren is not his father, and Amaya has never been an unfair judge of character.

She is simply curious about what the boy can do, considering his young age and apparent over-eagerness. « You may begin, » she signals from the sidelines to both Soren and the exam’s proctor, then folds her arms, ready to watch.

So, apparently, Callum had been lying. That in and of itself was… less of a surprise than it could have been; though Amaya did wish he’d just trusted her, she could understand his reticence, given the importance of their mission. Regardless, this does not change one important thing: « I still don’t trust you. »

@moonshcdow | meme me!

She really should have known something was amiss – there was far less communication, and what did reach her was thoroughly lacking description regarding how the search for the princes was going. When the messages finally reach her (within a few hours of each other, first from Corvus, and then from Opeli), she finds her hand shaking momentarily from a mixture of relief and fury.

She makes it back to the capital in record time. I knew I shouldn’t have listened to that traitorous bastard Viren! The Breach is well-defended even in her absence, though she knows she will return again, as long as tensions continue to run so high – but right now, she needs to be in the middle, to make sure that snake doesn’t try anything underhanded again.

And to make sure Gren is all right.