"I see," she answered. She had told him to relay any information regarding Lord Thayne. Her great-grandfather was still set on having her be the leader of the diplomatic entourage heading for Haven, and she didn’t wish to go against the Patriarch, even if she didn’t agree. If she was honest, she didn’t like the person so respectfully called Lord Thayne by everyone, but she was also aware of it primarily being because she didn’t understand him. The Noboru clan had looked into him and his background to see who he’d been before the system, and it was just a whole pile of… nothing. He was no one. A middle-tier office drone who’d worked in finance. Granted, his grades during university had been great, but he hadn’t precisely attended a university she would put much stock in. He had also done a

