Chapter 139

We walk back down to see a practical crowd, like a literal crowd of people, a crowd of countless people and Arden quick stops as she smirks at me.

"Are you still not believing what I said about us having various courts?" she says and I am seriously considering it now.

It would make sense at a point, it would make sense at a point because the amount of people that are here, it is simply staggering.

"Alice, why are there so much people here?" I ask her. I remember now that Arden had said I should ask her before but it had escaped my mind at one point.

"Well this isn't the only place like this that exists" she says, and I nod my head telling her to go on.

"We still have other places like this that exist..." she says and I realise that she's trying to be vague.

"You don't really have to tell me anything that you don't want to tell me" I say to her and she nods her head, a relieved smile on her face.

"Let me give you the rundown of it because it would be unfair of me to keep you in the dark.

This winter house, this winter house is a congregation of people, we are all linked by similar ties, either by blood, as family or business, we come here to do one thing, one thing only and it's to further the interests of our families.

Yet we are not the only house like this that exists. All these people that you are seeing, they belong to a house, they belong to courts that I cannot begin to tell you about because it is a little bit weird to me too".

"When did this start" i say and she quirks and eyebrow at me.

"Why would you be asking that?" she says trying to deduce the reason behind my questions and I turn her question over in my head.

"Adrian had never really told me that there was anything like a court or various houses littered the round-the-world, he would have told me something about that, don't you think?" I say looking at her and she nods her head happy.

"That's because this is a new development, it is a new development which no one actually anticipated but since it is happening, everyone is accepting it that way".

"What is the reason behind these courts?" I ask and she looks at me tired.

"Everyone finds that they can be more powerful when they have Allies, the courts are basically just a group of allies" she says and I nod my head.

"Like us then?" I ask her and she nods.

"Well not really like us, this one take things to another level, there's practically no trust in a court" she says and I marvel at this. Exactly how could you agree to be someone's ally when you did not trust them. I sigh at this and focus on other things.

"How are we going to get good views of the fights now?" I ask and Arden smiles.

"Come with me".