Back Home - Part 2

When the following morning came, and it was time for Oliver to head back to the Academy, Petyr was determined enough to get some answers out of him.

The soldiers gathered to salute his farewell, and Oliver shook hands with both Cormrant and Northman, before nodding to the squadron that he'd been in charge of, promising that he would see them soon.

It was a peculiar scene. Both sides seemed to make concessions, as a show of respect. For a noble to treat a man of the Serving Class as an equal – that was something. But for trained men of the battlefield to welcome an outsider as swiftly as they had, that was something else.