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 sighed, “We have a peace treaty with some of the other realms.” He explained to Clare, choosing to ignore

follow, 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

still some who defy the Advisors,

continued, “We then discuss a common ground solution, if a major law is broken then we vote on a possible punishment, that is what the Garde

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

nodded and soon enough they arrived in a place which was enveloped with people, covering the eighteen-row drop of metal chairs. She recognized

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 soul, but he didn’t say that she would freak out, or that her palms would

warned her that morning, how news travelled like a lightning bolt, so she attempted poorly to shrug off the feeling, and narrowed her eyes in an even more poor attempt as she pretended that she was actually looking for

with lots of chairs joined together as it curved into

with colours of blacks and reds and splashes of browns and 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 the room. On the far

that Nadia, Alonso had scattered,

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

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 the evilest of the lot, but

felt a tingle and a breezy whisper in her ear, “I see” the person said, with emphasis on the s, “that you