I'm not house crashing, I'm making connections

The rest of the afternoon passed easily.

None of them spoke very much, but she enjoyed simply leaning against Tenshi and watching the scenery pass in comfortable silence while her little kitten slept off the remnants of his rough night.

In the early evening, the carriage pulled into the Vokum mansion. The estate was huge and grandiose. Although it wasn't quite as elegant and over the top as the Imperial estate, that by no means made it some small and modest dwelling.

I suppose if this is an arranged resting point, that mother and grandmother wouldn't have accepted less.

Servants scurried outside to greet them as they rode up to the wide steps that led to the door. She had to crane her neck just a little from the carriage seat to look up at the doors themselves, which were engraved with ornate designs she couldn't decipher.