Aether's Band

The Magus posting in Krogga was over, and Gregory and his many wives had finished it with the quiet days they’d all wanted. It’d been an odd five years that’d seen them embroiled in wars, assassinations, political incidents, and far more. The majority had come during their first two years, making things fraught during that time. Good times came for them, too, even if some were attached to dangerous potentials. Claudia Firetongue, protégé of Archmage Aliminus, was brought to Krogga to become the new ambassador for Buldoun. That pulled her back into the circle of the Pettits, who acknowledged her as their secret, hidden wife. Alminus felt placated that they weren’t trying to court her, giving them the minimal freedom to love her the way they all wanted to. Elsa Bommet, their longtime friend, came with Yukiko’s family to visit, too, with more of her odd past being revealed to both them and her. In the end, she stayed true to her dreams, wanting to stay and be their maid and maybe their li