"Cynthia… Zeihardt?" asked Valyr once more with a slight frown, wanting to make sure he didn't hear him wrongly. "Are you really sure she used to go by the surname Zeihardt?"
"Last time I checked, she did use to go by that surname back then." Riekan faintly nodded. "But of course, considering our current situation, she eventually changed her surname to something else."
"Roughly around a century or so ago, she married into the clan I mentioned earlier, which is the Villen Kingdom's Amerhearst Royal Clan."
"Due to the Amerhearst clan's rules, she was forced to adopt their surname after she married into the clan," continued the man, to which Valyr faintly nodded in understanding. "This is the opposite of what usually happens whenever outsiders marry into other clans, where they retain their surnames from their birth clans."
"Well, that answers the Zeihardt part," said Valyr in response. "But how did she end up in the Caemelio clan?"
