King Jaren of the Emerald Kingdom and Queen Carolina of the Sapphire Kingdom met at the imperial capital of the Sapphire Kingdom a month after Bella's proposal. Both monarchs were of the opinion that their children were too young to get married right away, but they wanted to formalise the engagement and throw a luxurious banquet to celebrate.
"I had originally planned for a banquet at winter solstice to celebrate Jules's coming of age and taking up the mantle of the Crown Prince of the Emerald Kingdom, as well as the engagement of my younger daughter Mana and Prince Raven of the Obsidian Kingdom. My older daughter Astra is also supposed to get engaged with Crown Prince Mars of the Amber Kingdom, but I haven't received the official proposal from them yet," King Jaren informed her. "Should we expand the banquet into a one week celebration so that we can cover both the Emerald Kingdom as well as the Sapphire Kingdom?"
