What's Left

Lyan took in a deep breath as he stood in the meeting room, the fire in the hearth flickering, casting warm light across the stone walls. The reality of their situation was beginning to settle in. They weren't just a band of mercenaries anymore, and their success in battle had brought them something that was proving far more complicated to deal with: territory. Or rather, more territories. The newly acquired cities of Norhallow, Valmere, and Dunbridge were theirs now, but managing them was an entirely different kind of challenge.

(Well, we ended up skipping the part of Griselda's backstory because of my backstory yesterday, but I at least managed to tell them the truth about the Grimoire's Space and the existence of these eight high spirits. Surena, Alice, and Emilia has saw the eight of them appearing at the goblin king subjugation first-handedly after all. I guess Griselda's case could be told later on in the near future)