After the departure of the Governor, other awakener families came to visit him one after another.
This time, none of them sent their heirs to the Starfall family. Each family head came personally.
They arrived in polished carriages and on horseback, dressed in their finest clothes, their faces carefully composed.
These were the same families that had once dismissed the Starfalls as upstarts, the same families that had laughed behind closed doors when many factions began to attack them in the shadow, trying to get their hands on all their resources.
Now they came bearing gifts and false smiles, eager to curry favor with the young man who had cleared the second floor.
For their visit, the Starfall family did not show any hostility. Neither did they show them any smile.
Thoren received them in the visitor's room with the same cold courtesy he had shown the Governor.
