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.”

to Clare, choosing to ignore Alonso’s snarky comments, “That’s how

“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 harm comes to the humans, you should

defy the Advisors, the highest order of our

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

flinch, “Asguardians consider themselves above law, so be careful, and don’t heed

was enveloped with people, covering the

explained that it would happen because she was considered cursed. After all, she had no Angelic soul, but he didn’t

her that morning, how news travelled like a lightning bolt, so she attempted poorly to shrug off the feeling, and

with lots of chairs joined together as it curved into an

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 right, people surrounded two crescent shape tables

around her, realizing but not shocked that Nadia, Alonso had scattered, including Nathan, so much for small talk, she

group of people further in front of her, 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 to despise them too. The Shapeshifter’s stood on the

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

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