"I can see Itah has called on you which is very well fine. Saved me the trouble of having to do that myself."
Lady Stormward sipped on what Marenda suspected was tea. Beware that her suspicion merely stemmed from the fact that Lady Stormward was using a tea cup.
Marenda had only seen Malone's royal sister-in-law twice. And all those encounters were too brief for Marenda to actually draw a conclusion of what kind of woman the Lady Stormward was.
But in Dragonia, people talked a lot. Whether it be about the latest shining rider, or about the latest bastard child of an anonymous castle, or of a woman who must fight her husband and her husband's mistress while maintaining her place of power.
Rumors could be very dangerous thing. Marenda knew that much. So mere rumors that could prove to be the truth, or a baffling lie wasn't enough for Marenda to form an actual opinion of the woman. But there is this thing they say about gossips— that every gossip held an element of truth to it.
