257 A collision course of pride and romance: Prelude

*Bing-Bong*

This is your periodic reminder that the frontier of any region is a fucking boring ass place, and that gossip about noticeable figures in any given city is about as close to entertainment they got out here...that and the blood sports.

*Bing-Bong*

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"Hey...ain't that the sigil of the Goldshire Family in Emerald Eye? What the heck are they doing here?," the day drinker asked his companion.

"You didn't hear?"

"Hear what?"

"Apparently the patriarch of the Goldshire Family is an old friend with the Seventh Elder of the Zhen Clan, blood brothers or so they say."

"I know that part but that doesn't explain why they're here."

"I'm getting to it. Anyways, it's been said that the two of them made a promise ages ago to unite their families through the act of marriage between their own respective kids."

"Well ain't that ro-"