In the reserved stands of the high nobility, three figures observed with radically different expressions.
Kassian Goldcrest narrowed his eyes with disdain. "Pathetic," he murmured. "The mushroom boy sends his lizard to die and runs behind like an idiot. The commoner doesn't even know the basics of beast combat... The spy I have following him is a waste of time."
His fingers drummed rhythmically on the armrest of his seat. The ineptitude he was witnessing from the commoner with noble aspirations was personally offensive to him.
It was a waste that such a subject had a second beast. The fungus in the first place didn't count as a beast, so he was practically just a common tamer...
'What nonsense!'
Several seats away, Sirius Starweaver observed with an indecipherable expression. Unlike the other noble who openly showed his disdain, Luna's father seemed intrigued. He remembered the child with an unusual beast being interrogated that day, but his expectations had been betrayed...
