It had been nearly three months since Erich first was deployed to the Lutharian Ascendancy. And during this time, his young wife had decided that she could no longer sit idly by and let her marriage to continue in its deterioration.
There was only one way that Erika knew of that could earn forgiveness from her husband and that was to reacquaint the man with his mother. After all, from what she knew about Erich, the only person he was ever really close to in life was his mother.
Thus, for the past few months, Erika had been travelling aboard a civilian ship towards the world of Alfheim, where her husband's family currently lived in exile. After all, the previous politicians of the Germanic Star-Empire had been exiled after fleeing from their nation's borders during the Terminus War. If they ever returned to their homeland, they would be arrested and executed for treason.
