Reynold wasn't the only person to leave their parents behind and come rushing over to Ashlynn's side of the Great Hall. As soon as the servants began to move the tables, Charlotte Otker all but ran to Adala Leufroy's side.
"Sweet light, Adala," Charlotte said as she threw her arms around her slender friend. "Don't scare me like that! I can't believe you stood up to your father like that!"
"S-someone had to," Adala said, losing all of her composure as she was enveloped by Chralotte's soft embrace. "I just, I just couldn't hold it in anymore."
"But what are you going to do now?" Charlotte asked, looking around nervously as she pulled back from her friend. "The way things are going, your family…"
"I don't know," Adala said, biting her lip as she tried to recover enough of her composure to think things through. So many things had happened so rapidly that this was the first moment she really had to think about what would happen next.
