Chapter 274 - Delivered warning

"You brought her up here?" Yelled out Bittore as she saw two new faces entering the first tunnel of the second section.

"Relax mother." Walked Osira closer to the fire as she slowly flapped her hand up and down, trying to stop her from yelling. She even carried a bit of an irritated look on her face, and it is fair to say that it is not just because of her mother's yelling. "They are allies of Eric and Mogranius."

"Yes... Mogranius filled me in." Commander Alia spoke out, carrying suspicion and a untrusting look on her face, her eyes were half closed and her lips were flat. Obviously Mogranius was bold enough to tell them that they got stabbed on the back at first. "I like the work you've done down there." A rather sensitive topic to talk about, but even though Commander Alia is surrounded by potential enemies she feels like her arsenal is strong enough to take everyone here, even though there is a 14 year old in this specific arsenal.

"Thanks, I see Mogranius filled you in." Trying to find reasons to trust these ladies, she tapped on the fur seat near her and added. "Please sit down and tell us about yourself." Skilled enough to toy with words, Bittore continued to add in ways where she can control her tone upon wish even though this situation is hard to tackle calmly. "I apologise for yelling, Mogranius might have told you that we are very untrusting towards outsiders."

"Indeed, it became a bit of a hassle coming up here to begin with. Your little Fire Controlling friends refused to let us in at first." Was Commander Alia bold enough to point out, indirectly quoting Osira and her actions. Chances of her attacking these two ladies if they were in no way related to Eric, were large. It felt so uncomfortable for her to stay calm at such a case.

"Well, that little lady there is my daughter." Bittore raised her chin and glanced towards Osira, "I'm sorry if she offended you in any way. She does tend to become angry a bit too common."

"Oh I don't mind, I see you are protecting a lot here." Commander Alia spoke firmly and got to the point immediately after. "So what do you need to know?"

A bit shocked of how direct this lady is being, noticing that her smile is a bit forced as well. Bittore proceeded to ask with caution, "Umm, let's start with what relation you have with Eric or Mogranius."

"Oh me and them go way back!" Commander Alia answered with her enthusiasm rising a bit, and indeed they do know each other for months now and throughout that short period of time they have been through a lot together. "We parted ways over a month ago because we had to fight off an ill.u.s.tratian army."

Turning to Mogranius after, since that day was reminded to her she added. "By the way, nice work with the ambush. You've terminated a good portion of those bastards."

"Um... minors present..." Mollara spoke from the background, she tried to be mad about such language around them but the fact of ill.u.s.tratians losing a battle just couldn't help make her smile and change her tone.

"Oh right, sorry." Commander Alia stretched her word, she didn't neccesarily look like she felt guilty. Maybe just a little? Afterwards she thought about Ada, thinking that the lady who spoke in the background could have quoted this little lady who looks beyond adorable thanks to all the fur she is surrounded with.

"This little lady near Eric is Ada, and I'm Alia by the way." Trying to find what point she wanted to prove after, she rubbed her temple a little bit and firmly added. "Ada has recently joined our Domains, parted ways with her mother at Silver Kingdom so she can help Eric up here along with me. It was hard to say no to her."

"So she and Eric are?" Asked Bittore a bit direct, because she wants to see Eric with her daughter yet Osira is near her mother and Eric hovering (Not literally) over Ada's shoulder.

If you think it looks bad for Bittore, you should have seen how Osira felt when the shy and isolative Eric didn't hesitate to lift Ada and fly her up here. You would think that this boy would be too shy to ever get too close with a lady, in a second she thought that Eric's father was dumb enough to marry an ill.u.s.tratio or the other way around. Simply, she thought of Ada as Eric's sister.

"Let's just say that they have a connection." Commander Alia replied with a smirk across her face as the thought of these two went through her mind, it feels nice.

"With an ill.u.s.tratio?" Became Bittore direct to the point of sounding rude, "Don't misunderstand me but this is very unusual to see!"

At least she didn't say directly racist comments like, "There is no such thing as a good ill.u.s.tratio." Or "You must be crazy to cooperate with this green fool." But beat around the bush instead with sugar coated questions. When Bittore is calm, she can quite control what to say and can get most of the information she wants to know without drawing a Dagger.

"It is indeed, especially up here I think? I wasn't able to see many examples. But back at Occidentis Ignis she is one of the few hundred ill.u.s.tratios who have opposed the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance." Became Commander Alia direct, protecting Ada and tried to keep a smile on her face but found Bittore a bit rude.

"Interesting. I thought Mogranius was joking when he said that." Odd enough they didn't talk this topic further, they have been busy one day after the other.

But Bittore found one problem with her own way of speech, she has offended this little lady. She looks young, who would she want to destroy? If only she knew what a great mother Ada has, Bittore wouldn't waste a second being suspicious.

As a way of further acceptance, Bittore pushed herself hard enough to stand up. Afterwards she walked towards Ada and asked her to stand up, after she reached in for a hug and squeezed a bit tight. Gently speaking in her ear, but loud enough for everyone else to hear her. "I apologise if I offended you. You are obviously a brave young lady."

After seperating from the hug, she turned her glare towards Osira and requested. "You've pushed these ladies a bit too hard, please hug them both."

Luckily there aren't a lot of people in this room, the ladies who escorted them here were dismissed by Osira and asked to return to their previous tasks. Bittore is aware that her daughter doesn't like hugs, nor does she like how people look at her when she hugs.

So seeing that there aren't many people in this room, she found it as the best time to let go of little or no grudges without making her daughter uncomfortable. She sent Osira down there to handle this task so the least she can do is assure that Osira doesn't get too uncomfortable.

With Commander Alia closer, she hugged her first for a couple of seconds and tried to pull out of her hug quickly. But only found herself being hugged tighter by Commander Alia who pulled her back in the hug.

As everyone was paying attention to Osira and Commander Alia, they have forgotten about a little fact. Bittore is still recovering, but what does that mean in this case? She clung hard on Ada, trying to keep her own balance since her own knees started feeling weak.

Eric healed her to the point of allowing her feet to move, but he didn't heal her entirely. He doesn't feel like crying right now, even if Mogranius keeps smacking him it won't neccesarily work unless he cries out of pain and that might not be the best idea.

Ada noticed it, but she didn't make a big deal about it. She heard Mogranius talk a couple of sentences about a lady being hurt badly and Eric healing her, so she just assumes that that lady is the one who has clung on to her.

She just refused to let a hurt person fall no matter how much power she had to put in to keeping her up straight. She even put her arm around Bittore's back to get a better hold on her, whispering enough for Bittore to hear. "I've got you."

The hug with Commander Alia felt quite nice, tremendously soft even. "Eric must love them." Osira thought, once she figured out how good at hugging Commander Alia is. But she finally separated from the hug, interesting enough Alia had to let go.

With a bit of a blush on her cheek, Osira walked towards Ada and tried to hug her too. But seeing that Ada has clung to Bittore, she figured what's going on here. So she just hugged Ada from the side as comfortably as she could and whispered, "Sorry." On her ear.

Afterwards she disconnected from the hug and grabbed Osira's other side. Stating calmly, "Let's get you seated mother."

"Thanks, the pain has gotten a bit stronger now that the heat has calmed down." She spoke a bit loudly, to excuse her daughter from this rushfull behaviour.

"With hugs and introductions out of the way." Commander Alia spoke out grabbing all the attention, and added. "There is an army of over 300 a couple of days away from your domain."