Interlude - Kordia
It had to be fate.
A house available next to the sibliary?
Kordia had the option of staying in the dorm, but she knew what she preferred. She'd gotten an offer to join the Black Eagle House within days of receiving special student status, but had thrown it away thinking it wouldn't be conducive to her studies and a waste of money. Her resolve then had been to keep the debts to her future mother-in-law as minimal as possible, and sibliaries were notorious money-sinks, as she'd been warned.
And so, four days after going to the City Hall, it was with some anxiety that she knocked on the door of the Black Eagle House - every sibliary she'd ever read about was named after some animal - and forced a smile as she was met at the door by-
"Princess Lapins!" Kordia almost bowed, but Lapins stopped her. Behind the princess' shoulder, Mercy adjusted her glasses with a slightly approving look.