The drama of the season was not shared only with the royal family, but also with all those living within the palace. While the servants were usually content to let the drama provide some entertainment in their monotomous lives, the ambassadors sent from other kingdoms who had given up their home for a spot at one of the most refined courts in the dragon sea had other oppinions. While Aata and a few others welcomed it as relations with their own home countries were very boring and they were rarely needed, Gu felt differently. Heo Jun was disgusted, more than that, he was repulsed, he wished that he had never come here. Years of fighting between the two kingdoms had produced much bad blood, with shore raids until recent times leave it unsafe for the smaller peninsula to utilize many of the

