Ashelia didn't know what to believe, but there was nothing to be done for it. Either she would find a way to return everyone home before being forced to fight, or they would be returned after the made sure they won. There were no alternatives as far as she was concerned.

"Throne of Ivalice?" Ashelia stopped walking altogether, fixing Ramza in her sights. "There is no such thing. I meant it only facetiously, and yet - who is this House Atkascha you speak of?" Ashelia would be the first to admit that she could use a crash course or two in Ivalician politics since her attention had been consumed by goings on in Ordalia, Valendia and Kerwon, but even in her most recent skimming of missives she had never come across such a name. Was someone out west making some kind of power play?

[[Yaaaaaas!]]