Two days after that major summit ended.
The leaders of the Alliance's seven member nations held lengthy discussions over all manner of details.
They all seemed well versed in dealing with such minutiae...
The lengthy meetings left Karin feeling rather irritated!
Another "minor figure," Alonsus Faol's student, the young priest Turalyon, seemed to feel much the same way.
Karin deliberately drew a little closer to Turalyon, having several friendly conversations with this "protagonist," the future supreme commander of the Alliance...
He was a very decent young fellow who might only recently have come of age (the age of adulthood in Lordaeron was sixteen)... He was about Khadgar's age, but his personality was the complete opposite of Khadgar's carefree, even somewhat presumptuous manner.
He was shy, or perhaps bashful was the word.
Even when speaking with Karin, Turalyon often stammered; in front of the other important figures, he did not dare utter a word.
He came from Stratholme Cathedral, where he had originally been an apprentice priest under His Holiness Faol... According to him, this was his first time leaving the city, so he was not quite used to it.
All in all, Karin's impression was that he behaved exactly like a "child"!
He really had no idea how this "child" would one day manage to win over the ranger Alleria Windrunner, who had already lived for centuries.
Could the eldest Windrunner sister have a taste for that sort?
Karin speculated with a touch of malice.
During the last few days of the meetings, Karin and Turalyon simply stopped bothering to attend...
The important figures seemed not to notice that Faol's and Antonidas's two students were no longer standing dutifully behind them.
The two young men spent their time wandering around Lordaeron's Royal Palace, chatting along the way.
Once they