When Aegon returned to the courtyard, he paused to look at everyone and found it amusing how all of them were influential enough to change the fate of hundreds of thousands of people, yet they were here chilling and relaxing like any other mundane humans.
The Emperor was sleeping. The Dean was annoying his own employee. Liliana was teasing Claire, whom Aegon was also curious about since she brought out a different side of Liliana.
Then there were his friends, one the princess of one of the Main Races, the other three prince and princess of a well-known Kingdom too. More than that, they were the current best of the younger generations of the human domain.
All of them sat on a big hanging couch and played cards while talking all kinds of nonsense. They hadn't seen each other for a while, which didn't really affect their friendship, but it did give them a lot to talk about.
Counting Xiu and Arnold, this was the family he had made in this world, and he was proud of it.
