"So what? You're telling me that the royal family is going to intervene now?" Michael asked with a frown.
Melody nodded, "They have no choice in the matter. The Bishop family have enlisted the support of at least ten other noble families for the appeal…" she said softly.
"If the royal family don't comply with the old laws, there is a risk of civil war breaking out in the future. You should know that the Pritchard family would not risk something like this—not when we have the great war as a precedent."
The room went silent as Michael contemplated her words. He could understand the royal family's position, especially when it came to civil war. Magic society were still recovering even two-thousand years after the great war after all.
"So what does this all mean? Are they going to force you to marry someone from the elite families?" Rudy piped up for the first time in a while, wearing an impassive expression.
"I… I don't know." Melody admitted, lowering her head.
