"When I leave."
The last three words immediately changed the atmosphere around the conference table.
Only moments earlier, everyone had been laughing about Valeria's refusal to touch paperwork and Boren's talent for transferring his administrative responsibilities onto Lyana, but that humor gradually disappeared as they looked toward Sage.
His departure for the Royal Capital had never been a secret.
They had already discussed the Kingdom Headquarters, the future expansion of the Adventurer Guild and the fact that Greyvale could not remain the center of everything forever, yet until now the plan had always existed somewhere in the future.
Several months, perhaps longer depending on how quickly Evergreen stabilized. There had never been a fixed date attached to it, which made it easy for everyone to treat the Capital as the next stage rather than something that was actually approaching.
