Daina finished her tearful complaint and began to sob.
The Clerics of the Communications Group beside her wore a rich variety of expressions. Their newly appointed Deputy Group Leader had truly pushed her acting to its limits just now, switching perfectly naturally from calling the commander of the 12th Regular Regiment a pighead to looking so fragile and aggrieved that a gust of wind might knock her over.
Of course, what shocked everyone most was their Deputy Group Leader's identity... the High Priest's adopted daughter.
Newly promoted young leaders always prompted their subordinates to question their backgrounds first. Although the legion was busy fighting and the Communications Group's tasks were important, they did not have to go through field training to build coordination, nor did they leave camp during battles, instead remaining at their posts. Naturally, all that sitting led them to gossip over their three daily meals of mush.
For instance, this new Deputy Group Leader had originally been an Attendant Officer at the Legion Commander's side, and now she had been promoted here. Clearly, she was being cherished like a treasure. Perhaps she was the Legion Commander's spoiled young mistress.
Clerics were people too, and people inevitably had certain habitual ways of thinking. They all liked to reduce relationships of mutual benefit between men and women that they could not yet understand to what happened between the sheets.
However, after hearing Miss Daina announce her background, the Communications Group's Clerics did not immediately dismiss the idea that she was the Legion Commander's mistress. Instead, their thoughts went a level deeper:
Oh... so the Legion Commander is the High Priest's son-in-law.
It was a revelation. Seen one way, it explained their Legion Commander's astonishingly rapid rise. Seen the other way, it made sense too: their Legion Commander was so