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2 Months Later“Daddy’s abdicated his seat on the Council for me!” Aella bounded into Kem and Lia’s apartment without even knocking first. It was only because of their enhanced hearing that they hadn’t been caught in a compromising position.
“What?” Lia asked, shocked. She knew that her father wouldn’t retain his seat forever, but Aella had only just turned thirty, and for a long-lived race, that was considered to still be a baby. A lot of their people still thought that Lia was too young to be married, but they’d slowly been coming around to the idea. Even if it reeked of hypocrisy considering they’d expected Aella to marry at just a few years older.
“He said that I was right about needing a more forceful voice, and that that voice should be me.” She was clearly excited, a position o
