So, here was the situation.
Big, bronze, gorgeous woman standing over an unconscious noble in the middle of the entrance hall. His friends yelling. Guards unsure what to do. Valdris watching from the side like this was a play she'd bought tickets to.
And somehow, some way, it was Aegis's problem.
"So, uh... what exactly does this have to do with me?" Aegis whispered to Valdris without taking her eyes off the scene, hoping she could worm her way out of this situation entirely.
"She's a scholarship student," Valdris said, her voice low and even. "Like it or not, you represent these people now. What she does reflects on you, and vice-versa."
[Fantastic. I get married to a princess, fight off assassins, and my reward is I now have to babysit a whole economic class?]
Aegis sighed and stepped forward.
