It turned out that Arthur managed to make quite a mess in the one day that he was directly in charge – not only did he completely trash the main council chamber, but somehow put several dozen people in the dungeons for questioning him.
Additionally he reassigned all the patrol routes and locations, making them effectively nonsensical.
Sufficed to say the emergency council had their hands full, and Calen and his companions haven't seen Nickolas for almost two days after returning.
In other news, Alfred developed a sudden interest in becoming an instructor, insisting that the job will help him polish his fundamentals.
He wasn't very subtle about his real intentions but Nickolas let him do it anyway, probably thinking that he might as well do something productive while flirting with Morgan.
But speaking of people trying new things, he wasn't the only one doing so.
