Rotten Rughsbourgh
For the next few days, Northern worked closely with Thalen to investigate and locate several other drifters that had made it to the Central Plains with them.
This was what gave him the privilege of access to certain information.
First of all was the current state of things, generally, and how the news of the return of the students had affected the continent at large.
And honestly, Northern was pretty disappointed. He had expected it to be more of a big deal than Thalen's sources discovered it to be.
There had been no word heard from Rughsbourgh; his assistants and guards had claimed that he had ventured into Solitary Training to break the limitations of being a Paragon and become a Luminary.
And it seemed it was the possibility of this news that had several sources silent, most especially the government.
Thalen had described the government as an intricate web of hidden agendas, where power shifts and allegiances were never straightforward.