While Eda stood there in her place with an angry face and Abby looked confused by Minos's offer, the young Stuart was quietly in his place, eating as if nothing much was happening.
He then took a piece of the fish to his mouth, at the same time as he watched the two women from the opposite side of the table where they were.
After a while, he finally broke the silence and said, looking at Eda. "You talk like I'm asking her to betray her family and spit on her ancestors..."
"And isn't that basically what you asked for?" She snapped.
"Of course it is not. A few months ago, ehh, that other girl from the Miller family, what was her name again?" He looked at Abby and asked.
"Mona."
"That's right, Mona. Didn't she go to the Flaming Empire to join one of the sects?"
Hearing this, Abby gave Minos a strange look, as if she were asking him to stop joking.
