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.”

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

added, slowing down, as they almost reached the open area, “There are certain rules that each of the realms agrees to 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

are still some who defy the Advisors, the highest order of

then discuss a 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 of the

seriousness on his face made her flinch, “Asguardians consider themselves above law, so be careful, and don’t

enveloped with people, covering the eighteen-row drop of metal chairs. She

it would happen because she was considered

so she attempted poorly to shrug off the feeling, and narrowed her eyes in an even more poor attempt as she

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

the ones she’d seen first when they’d entered the dome lined up in a

Alonso had scattered, including Nathan, so much for small talk, she hissed

them a flippant what-the-hell-are-you-looking-at snub, she already disliked their princess Alexa, so it wasn’t hard to despise them too. The Shapeshifter’s stood on the opposite side examining a young Lightwatcher like

the only ones scattered amongst the

ear, “I see” the person said, with emphasis on the s, “that you are

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