Miss Galina did not hide the Council's movements from Shade:
"There are thirteen Great Witches in the Council in total. I am the Seventh Seat, and the one heading to Coldwater Port this time is the Third Seat. You may have heard her name before—Sivie Aurora. The last time I saw her seemed to be when I went to the seaside for a vacation last summer. At the time, she was a Twelve-Ring Arcanist, a witch of the Twelfth Order. I wonder whether she has made any further progress over this past year."
The Outlander pondered for quite some time before realizing what that name meant.
Twenty-nine-year-old Lady Sivie Aurora came from the ancient Aurora Family and was a world-famous shipowner. Having inherited her family's wealth and built upon it through her own efforts, she controlled several trade routes between the Old Continent and the New Continent, and held shares in nearly a third of the shipyards along both coasts of the Old Continent.
To people living by the sea in this era, this lady was the most legendary female figure of all. Even the Pirate Kings who roamed the Eye of the Storm could not compare to her legendary exploits.
Of course, there were also plenty of other rumors about her. For instance, some pirates on the new sea routes were supposedly funded by the Aurora Family. Another rumor claimed that the Aurora Family could speak with creatures of the sea, which was why their cargo ships met with accidents far less often than those of their competitors. Naturally, the gossip people enjoyed most was that this still-unmarried lady actually liked women, because men were never seen at her side.
Thinking about it that way, it was not difficult to imagine that a descendant of the Aurora Family, renowned