Third person POV
A few days after Aldona's 8th birthday, everything went back to normal with the usual duties and obligations. Aldona was happy with her gifts from her birthday and knew that her late father was happy for her. Chivo went back to his duties as a soldier to Ruslav and unofficially for his home country. And then, on that Monday evening, Helena went to Basilio with a new proposal: a visit to the Snow Vamzoms of the Leeuwenhoek Mountains north of the country of Falleta, which, strangely, was a shogunate monarch nation. The country of the Snow Vamzoms, who wore thick, furry clothes in white, black, and red, and the clothes, according to their Forest brethren, came with bulletproof armour, googles, and mouth masks, was called Mont De Nèu, named after Falleta's northeastern, snowy and mountainous region that the Snow Vamzoms had taken control of. Hearing that, Basilio was astonished and stunned and now knowing that he eventually said yes while thinking of an alliance with them. Also, Basilio knew that the Wolken Party was exiled to Paták Furl in the Electorate of Knox-Merx for 5 months with a comfortable accommodation there and was quite impressed by Josiah II's move for that.
Also, that happened during dinner time, and Ormoc and Paulina wanted to come, too, since the activity of Vatrene in Pantano's northeastern, disputed region is becoming less and less. The reasons were few and obvious: her army was getting smaller and smaller due to their lives being gambled away in conquering that region, yet their efforts failed spectacularly. Because of that, as reported by Cas, Vatrene's king, Urbanus Candales, had decreed a conscription of men and women above the age of 19 across the country to increase the army's size. The Light Rays Church, under the Archbishop Jacobus Asaf, agreed to this. But this didn't sit well with most of the young people, who more or less didn't want to enlist in the army for their country. As a result, many of them either tried to dodge the conscription or fled the country to Falleta, Ruslav, and Pantano to escape it.
So, with a plan for a visit to Mont De Nèu, Basilio and his circle planned to do so by tomorrow morning. Chivo wanted to come with them, so he was allowed in. Now, all of them have made preparations for that trip.