<i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#808080">Lu...Lucian. That’s Lucian…</span></i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">Drakus looked on, completely stunned by the turn of events. Like, she had told him that she was dating Lucian, and so was her brother, but to actually see him, holding both of them close to his body, and defending her from that witch…</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#808080"><i>Holy shit.</i></span><br/><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99ff">Ordenel looked at all of them with the same stunned look that Drakus had on his face. Lucy...was holding both of them...and was that Alexi he heard with the quip? He hadn’t expected that one when they had come down here, but he did seem a lot more open than the last time he was here, so who knows. Maybe it was normal for him. </span><br/><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian laughed as Alexi spoke up, leaning down to give him a kiss on the cheek.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff"> “That is very true darling, very true indeed.” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">An idea passed through his mind, and he decided to go with it. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“Tessa, you could stop those rumors right now, if indeed they are rumors, with a little test.” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">He waved his hand, and summoned from his desk the black feather. He held it out to her with a grin saying,</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff"> “Just say, ‘I didn’t use sex to get my Mastery over Transmutation’. If you can say that whole phrase while holding that feather, you are speaking the truth.”</span>