"Why?" Alfred asked, the old emperor seeming to be overcome by a strange feeling after his daughter's words.
"I never expected... to see Luke so happy," Penelope replied.
Hiera's children were very close to each other. Although rare, casualties had occurred during the succession struggle, but this had not happened in a long time.
Even in Alfred's time, when Liam had started the succession war, only a few drops of blood had been shed, and that had been during the duel between the last two princes fighting for the throne.
Alfred had three siblings. Two sisters and one brother.
None of them were in the Hiera Empire anymore.
Two of them had gone together to a small continent to study the true nature of magic, specifically the ancient spells used by Andromeda, in a magic tower.
The other had gone to the dwarf continent, the northernmost point of the world, to train as a blacksmith in a rather unexpected and amusing turn of events.
