My Beginning After the End

Party Pt. I

Tessia Eralith

"This sucks!" Darvus shouted while we stood at the bottom of a large staircase, behind a huge line of high ranking nobles and figure heads in the war that led into the dining hall, where the party was being held. "Why do we need to wait in this line? You are the Princess!"

"Patience, Darvus." Caria told him with a smile, we were all dressed up. I was wearing a tight green dress, Caria was in a long black dress, and Stannard and Darvus were wearing suits.

"I still can't believe the Lances took down three Retainers at once." Stannard mentioned to all of us. "This party is huge, they probably are throwing it to grow morale, that is what I would do."

"You say Lances, but we both know it was Arthur and Virion." Caria added, and that was true, we did know that. It was in the letters that go sent around that Veer killed two, and Arthur killed the other. "I bet you can't wait to see them." Caria nudged me slightly. "I be you can't wait to see Arthur."

"Shut up." I nudged her back, and the four of us started to laugh. "We are supposed to be acting like we are supposed to be here."

"Oh, who cares?" Darvus said sarcastically. "I just want to get this over with, and leave, I hate coming to these things." Darvus was from a noble house, so he attended things like this unlike Caria and Stannard. "I don't need to see your boyfriend showing off to the people."

"What about Veer?" Caria asked Darvus for his opinion on Veer.

"Knowing him, he probably will sit in the corner, and be bored." Well, Darvus was not wrong, Veer was very talkative, and not afraid to say anything to anyone, but he may get bored at a party with a bunch of nobles.

"I wonder how strong he's gotten." Caria asked no one in particular. "He took down two Retainers, he barely defeated one before, he has to be on a whole different level."

"Well, you know what they call him now, right?" Darvus said as the line moved up slightly.

"The Devil of Dicathen?" I answered for everyone, knowing that was his nickname from a while ago.

"No, not that one, they still call him that, but now he has been deemed the name Lance of Death, they say wherever he goes, the enemy parishes." Darvus told us, I haven't heard that yet, it's pretty stange though, hearing something like that about Veer.

"Fits him." Stannard nodded his head. "I heard from someone that he was responsible for the victory in Slore as well, he came up with the plan, and tore apart the enemy."

"Yeah, I heard that too." I replied, I knew that from my grandfather, I was here when they came back. "We can't forget that he is only eleven, I knew him when he was four, so seeing him be this image of death, is sad."

"It's in a good way." Caria answered me. "He is taking the enemy down so that we can survive and win this war." I know he is doing it for the right reasons, it's just hard to comprehend sometimes just how strong the two of them are.

"Princess Tessia." The person in front of us bowed to me, it was a noble human male, and his family behind him bowed as well on the stairs. "Are you talking about the Youngest Lance, Lance Virion Leywin?"

"We are." I answered, giving them a smile as well.

"Is he nice?" The girl to his right, maybe a little younger than me asked. She had brown hair, and was wearing a black tight dress, and seemed to have a sparkle in her eyes thinking about Veer.

"No." Darvus answered.

"Shut up." Caria hit him and motioned for me to speak.

"Don't listen to him." I said with a smile. "Veer is a, Lance Virion is very nice, you should speak with him and find out yourself."