Kyran and Rin talked for a couple of hours, mainly with the latter asking questions about anything and everything under the sun. It was not until Pheobe arrived that Rin was forced to leave Kyran to rest.
Apparently, Patriarch Aron had returned from a meeting with the Aureole and Templar Code leaders, and it was not going smoothly. The Aureole demanded a female leader from the Regis Clan present during the meeting, while the Templar Code leaders— apart from Tritus— demanded an explanation as to why their faction suddenly became a subsidiary of the Regis Clan.
Truth be told, Aron never said anything about subsidizing the Templar Code. It was Tritus who announced it at the start of the meeting, causing his subordinates to rage.
On the other hand, the Aureole leaders were calm. But when a leader from the Templar Code tried to goad them by asking if they had fallen to the point of submitting themselves to a fallen clan like the Regis.