A week later…
Horo and his family was in the main residence of the estate bidding farewell to his aunt who would be returning to her husband, who is part of the Legio family.
The Legio family is one of the six High Families of the merchant union they are also one of the stronger of the six families. She used her husband's help in order to provide resources for Samora, in times when the Trueheart family was going through continuous financial peril.
They were the only family to help from the union, every one of the other families excluding the high families, tore at the Trueheart family every chance they could.
It wasn't due to any animosity or nothing of the sort, this was just the nature of the union. Families rise and fall all the time, and if one wasn't in a alliance or had protection from a high family then every other family would take any opportunity to knock down another family in attempts to obtain profit even at the cost of the demise of said family.
The Trueheart family had only started rising about two decades ago when Horo's father took over after his grandfather passed away, but they quickly rose and became a medium level family in the union, one of the best at the due to the unique intuition and his sister marrying into a high family.
This did not mean they had protection from the high family, as Anacia's husband was only the third son and not the heir. Although that was the case, he really doted her and did as much as he could for her and her family.
He propped them up a lot in their time of financial decline, but all of the Trueheart members followed their heart and intuition and they all wanted to Horo to be born. Their family's bloodline struggled with reproduction, and they also felt this child would be special, so they all fully supported Marceles.
Even with Anacia's husband, Enrique's help they continued to declined with the amount spent on special treasures and other families claiming property and other assets of theirs due to them being unable to hold on to them.
They hid everything from Horo and Himora, but Horo heard conversations when he was a baby and already knew of the family's financial situation.
The family wasn't even part of the union anymore and they didn't have many servants, just Oswalt, Aslana, The instructors, and one maid.
When Horo and Himora bid farewell to their aunt she gave them a strong hug, and when she released she left a hand on their shoulders and spoke softly "My wonderful niece and nephew, you two are much more of a surprise and miracle then our family could have expected. I'm sure both of you are going to be great, and I believe you two are exactly what the Trueheart name needed right now, don't let your old aunt down."
Horo responded first " Aunt I promise to protect my sister and help her become stronger so we both can make everyone with the Trueheart name extremely proud.
Himora was next as she said giddily "That's right auntie your niecey Pooh will help this family rise beyond everyone that doubted."
Anacia couldn't help but smile and hug them again.
After every one bid their last farewell's Anacia hopped in a carriage and sped away.
Horo and Himora proceeded to approach their uncle Jake, and asked "Are you going to take off as well uncle?"
Jake responded "Nahh, I'm going to stick around for a while, I want to take this chance to watch you two grow a little bit while I can." He said with emotion and a tinge of somberness.