<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian heard it all, from the leech to the Mastery. Knowing that intervention would be very quickly needed, he reached out and grabbed Tessa’s wrist, keeping her hand facing the floor. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“The answer to that question, hun, is not whom, but how many. If my trusted friends are to be believed, the whole panel of judges.”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff"> With that he looked over at Tessa with a smirk on his face. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“Speaking of which, congratulations on your Mastery Tessa. I haven’t had a chance to see you since then, but I heard your project was...enticing.” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">He winked and let go of her hand, walking with Alexi over to Ayla and putting his arm around her waist.</span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99ff"><br/>
Ordenel couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw Lucian step in like that. Normally the vampire let the wards handle it, but he could feel the tension in the air. In a space where people had maybe three square feet of space total, the four people, Lucian, the twins, and Tessa, had a ring around them. For the first time ever It was silent in the bottom level of the party, because if the other three had rumors about themselves, Lucian had full on legends. This was a meeting of all sorts of mages, and if something happened here it may even overload the wards. Not that Lucian was ever affected by them, he had put in that loophole when he had made them. Only two people could act entirely freely in here, and those were Lucian and Ordenel himself.</span>