House Of Legions (The Angel Descendants book 1)

He released a breath, as his boots crunched the earth beneath them, “Fortunately it's grey, but the brown leather is good for shielding yourself from all descendants, the Garde wears them the most. The material isn’t very strong, the colour itself symbolizes peace, students who’ve ascended wear them often as well, it keeps their parents off their backs, it’s made from the insides of the Khiron trees.”

Nadia muttered, “The Garde are the peacekeepers after all,” but loud enough for Clare to hear.

“That’s horrible, don’t the trees die, they seem so,” Clare paused, “alive.”

“Nah, we just remove branches, it grows back within a few months, they don’t really mind, they’ve been doing it since the angels first arrived, it’s one of the reasons they exist.”

Nathan gestured, with his finger to the end of the cave, as they grew closer toward the noise, “The chambers for the court, Luckily we’re meeting only some of the Orderian.”

Clare asked, “Do you think they gonna agree to help Calub?”

Alonso interrupted, with a nonchalant shrug, “If they don’t we’d just do it anyway, we don’t really have to obey them just yet, well Nathan does, but only the Garde condones the Orderian say in anything, besides it’s not like we’re addressing the Advisors.”

“ALONSO” Nadia shouted, a meter away from Nathan, Alonso and herself, “Stop putting ideas in Clare’s head, there are consequences when you defy the rules of the realms, even for those who aren’t ascended.”

Alonso said, “It’s just a dumb treaty.” He rolled his eyes, “I don’t see why we have to pretend as we care or need them, especially those Asguardians, I hate them, egotistical jackasses.”

He explained to Clare, choosing to ignore Alonso’s snarky comments, “That’s how we keep most things strictly on a demon

in return, we offer them protection and agree to a fair trial if any crimes have been committed, amongst other things. That way no harm comes to the humans, you should

added, “There are still some who defy the Advisors,

common ground solution, if a major law is broken then we vote on a possible punishment, that is what the Garde do, think of them like policemen. In our case, we seek assistance from the other realms without the approval

gaining her full attention, the seriousness on his face made her flinch, “Asguardians consider themselves above law, so be

arrived in a place which was enveloped with people, covering the eighteen-row drop of metal chairs. She recognized some of

if they sensed her presence, most turned and stared openly at her, she had expected it. Nathan explained that it would happen because she was considered cursed. After all, she had no Angelic

feeling, and narrowed her eyes in an

the well-deserved eyes, a modern court, tenfold, with lots of chairs joined together as it curved into an oval

white. White marble thrones that resembled the ones she’d seen first when they’d entered the dome lined up in a straight line centred

around her, realizing but not shocked that Nadia, Alonso had

whom she remembered as the Elvan stared at her as if she was forbidden fruit. She gave them a flippant what-the-hell-are-you-looking-at snub, she already disliked their princess Alexa, so it wasn’t hard

with those who weren’t their own, except surprisingly the Casters. They were the ones with the bands around their wrist, the only ones scattered amongst the whole crowd. Clare chuckled at the thought, shaking her head at the absurdity of this live picture. Who would've thought that the social ones were

a breezy whisper in her ear, “I see” the person said,