Chapter 103 – Alliance

• Laila and Orion come in a little bit later, but we don’t begin our argument again. Instead, Laila takes charge, bustling us all into the kitchen and starting to make a big pot of fish stew by hand, insisting that the process of cooking is sometimes necessary.
• “Honestly you all rely on magic far too much,” she murmurs, even as I conjure up a big crunchy roll of bread to go along with our evening meal.
• “Laila, don’t you have like, dozens of servants who do everything for you in your home palace?” Anton asks, a bit dry, leaning in the doorway as Orion and I chop vegetables.