Sharan politely excused herself, gng at Dink suspiciously as she left. Madame Celeste ighe goblins as she opened her arms wide to invite Lady Estra into an embrace, exposing her small and perky breasts. What she cked in her chest, she made up in her hips. Her slender waist defied on sense as they fred out into wide hips and firm ass. Dink’s breathing quied as Lady Estra pulled back the hood of her cloak to run into her mentor’s embrace.

  Lady Estra had tears streaming down her cheeks as she buried her fato her mentor’s bare shoulder. Dink could feel her grief through the bond as she lowered her guard. Madame Celeste rubbed Lady Estra’s bafly while making soothing sounds. Eventually, Lady Estra’s sobs lessened as she posed herself. She broke away from her mentor's embrace with a beaming smile. Madame Celeste returhe smile warmly.

  “It’s okay, my dearest. I heard about House Stormborne’s plight through the grapevihe House of Worldly Delight’s informatiowork is still as unrivalled now uhe new director as it was when I orchestrated it. My protege still keeps me informed on anything I may find of i. Of course, that includes my favourite student,” Madame Celeste iserated.

  “I have to save my House, mistress. I’ve found something in the Are Academy libraries that’s given me hope,” Lady Estra said.

  “Yes, the in myth of the wood elves. A high-elf daughter of a minor House that mated with her forbidden lover during a rare celestial event. Earning the approval of the nd and giving her desdants a e to the forests. It’s an iing idea, you were not the first to have it. It was dismissed after realizing that wood-elves are as vulnerable to the expanding woods as the rest of us,” Madame Celeste replied.

  “Ordinary wood-elves are, but what about their king? I know that he’s been able to prevent the expanding woods from overtaking the forests of Lashar,” Lady Estra defensively said.

  “He’s an exceptiohe direct desdant of their progenitor and is one of the oldest living wood-elves. I’m a child in parison to his aness and I’m nearing my first millenia. Besides, no one has been able to replicate the ritual for the midnight sun. It’s been lost to the ages,” Madame Celeste tinued in an attempt to persuade her.

  “I found it. The humans had the ritual, it was in the private library of a collector who didn’t uand its importa was discarded at the foot of a bookshelf, hidden in a dark er, gathering dust. It looked like it had fallen there decades earlier and I found it entirely by ce. I tripped and almost set the entire library on fire as I knocked a lit ntern onto the floor, scattering embers. Fortunately, the library’s fire wards were intact despite being inactive for so long. The library beloo our host, Lord Hubris, he’s a close friend of my father from their service against the expanding woods in his youth. He’s old now and is mostly bedridden. He would never allow his prized library to be ed, otherwise,” Lady Estra excitedly expined.

  Di a tingliion of mana being elled as Lady Estra raised her hand. An are sigil appeared in the air, drawing light fragments together to form the shape of a radiant book. The light faded away, revealing an antique, leatherbound book covered in decorative gold filigree, written in elven script. Madame Celeste gasped, hurrying to tentatively touch the a book held iudent’s hands. Trag her finger across the words as she silently mouthed the words to herself.

  “Is this real?” Madame Celeste suddenly asked, looking into Lady Estra’s eyes, seargly.

  “Yes, I showed it to my father. That’s why I have the full support of House Stormborne behind me. Lord Hubris didn’t remember how he came to possess the book. He gifted it to my father in the hopes that it’s successful in bating the expanding woods,” Lady Estra replied.

  She was grinning, Dink could sense her self-satisfa through their bond at her mentor’s rea. He raised his hand to his mouth and cleared his throat, drawing the attention of the pair of stunning women.

  “I’m sorry to interrupt your reunion, but I have an appoi downstairs with that rge lion man,” Dink interrupted.

  Madame Celeste’s face barely perceptively twitched. Dink could only see it with his enhanced senses, Lady Estra appeared oblivious to her mentor’s disapproval. He chose to ignore her displeasure because he had bee aced to that rea long ago. People had treated him as filth since he was cursed into a goblin.

  His eyes narrowed slightly, but that was the only visible rea as he instinctively suppressed his emotion from carrying through the bond. The draic bloodline allowed him greater trol than was traditionally grao a tract holder.

  “Axion wait. He’s getting bored after esc me here and is stirring trouble, as usual. It doesn’t surprise me that he would enjoy the pany of a goblin,” Madame Celeste said.

  Her polite tone masked her pt. Lady Celeste noticed it regardless. Hurrying to staween them, she elled mana to dismiss the a book. A sigil appeared and fractured the book into scattered light that rained down as it rained down.

  “This is Dink. He’s the arena champion…” Lady Estra started to speak.

  “Until today. You purchased it from the owner after it sughtered the men your father entrusted your safety with. How could you be so impulsive as to risk your life and yuardians in the arena? They weren’t the most exceptional, I grant you that. It’s better for you to have discovered that early before being overrun by his kind in the expanding wood. You’ve also improved greatly in your application of world ws to yic. I ’t even form the sigil you effortlessly used to summon the book,” Madame Celeste reprimanded.

  “There was no way to predict what would happen and the expanding woods is far more dangerous than any arena. Including the ‘fire pit’ that only the least fortunate creatures are forced to fight in the bowels of Mount Tai. The dwarves of Ugren are so proud of their arena built atop a magma crust. I o get as much experience as I could before starting out on my quest. I think you uand that,” Lady Estra firmly retorted.

  “I’m only worried about you, dearest. You’re an adult now and make your own decisions. You’re no lohe timid girl who came to me to learn my craft. I taught you everything I know, that includes the things outside of the bedroom that I probably shouldn’t have, but it will serve you well now. I’ll trust your judgement,” Madame Celeste sighed as relented in her chastisement.

  “Back to what I was saying earlier. Dink has a draic bloodline. I believe that’s the reason for why he was able to overpower my attuned warriors so easily,” Lady Estra said.

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