Transmigrated as a Ghost

Nodding her head and smiling, Frostine, had never expected Marcus to give her his support, but she was glad to know that he would help through Mrazivý.

"I see that is perfectly fine. If you just wish to be there for Mrazivý I have no qualms about that."

After that the meeting between the siblings continued as they hammered out their plans to strengthen Frostine's position as the next ruler.

"Well, that should wrap up everything for today. I want to thank all of you for going along with me, even though I know originally you wanted to support James. If the eight of us work together I know that we can bring the kingdom to even greater heights." Frostine said happy to have her siblings on board.

"It was the best option. Other than James you currently have the strongest position as one of the nation's top archmages. If we began fighting amongst each other for the throne it is all the more likely that Reigen would win, just like with what happened with our father." Edwin said remembering hearing about how in the last battle for succession, many of their fathers' siblings tore each other apart.

He knew that as the former fifth now fourth prince since Soith had been disowned, his standing would normally be better than Frostine's and that he could make a run for being the next king.

However, he also knew that would split the support of his siblings here, and that it would simply cause turmoil between them and make it more likely for Reigen and his camp to take the throne.

"Now what of our sisters and brothers that have married into noble houses, have any of them swayed their family's support our way?" Serenity asked, wanting to know if they had the backing of their other siblings.

Unfortunately, Frostine shook her head and said, "I reached out to them, but none gave me favorable answers at this time. Most of them are staying neutral until father announces his heir, and the ones that have picked a side choose to go with Reigen. Still with the eight of us we hold more power than our six other siblings working with Reigen. And while I do not mean to speak bad about them, we are the most proactive of our siblings. Each one of us excels at one field or another, even without the name of Borealia we have paved our own ways."

Giving that final rousing speech, Frostine stood up and thanked everyone for coming, and to giving her their support.

'It is finally over.' Marcus thought.

While he did not mind being here for Mrazivý, the talks about the politics of the kingdom, and the moves that each sibling needed to make to shore up their power had begun to bore Marcus.

It was not like he was apart of any of their plans other than to help Mrazivý when dealing with the adventures guild as a liaison, and that part of the discussion lasted all of thirty seconds.

Luckily it was finally over, and he and Mrazivý got up to leave so that they could spend the rest of the day training.

However, as they were about to go, James came up to the two of them and said, "Could I talk to the both of you in private? It is about something personal and does not have to do with the kingdom's succession."

"Marcus you fine with that." Mrazivý asked, able to tell that his interest had long been waning and that he wanted to get out of here.

Still, like Mrazivý was getting good at reading him, he was getting good at reading her and could tell she wanted to talk to her brother.

"Sure, we can. I suppose this would be a good chance to tell him about our adventure into the crystal caverns, since he is the one who told you about them originally."

Smiling James was pleased that Marcus had agreed to go with him, and he quickly led them towards the barracks within he castle where many of the knights and guards rested when off duty, and beast companions were housed.

"So why did we have to come all the way out here?" Marcus said, wanting to know the reason for them to need to come to the barracks to talk.

"That is because there is someone I wanted to introduce you to." James said as he moved over towards a set of large double doors within the barracks.

He then opened up the door, and called out saying, "Fallon come on out."

WHOOSH!

A moment after James had yelled into the room, a large figure flew out and landed in the wide-open space of the barracks.

Looking at the creature that had just appeared into the open, Marcus saw that it had golden and white feathers all over its body and stood around fifteen feet tall.

"This here is my partner Fallon the minokawa, an epic grade magical beast. She was sent as an egg as a gift from a kingdom to the west that was trying to foster good relations with us, and ultimately ended up with me." James said as he pet the side of Fallon's head who was looking for attention.

'Level fifty-seven. It is pretty strong.'

Appraising Fallon, Marcus was impressed by its level, but he figured that it made sense seeing as how it was the beast companion for the leader of a unit of elite knights.

"You know if you wanted to know my level, I would have told you." Fallon said to Marcus surprising him.

He had not expected the large magical beast to start talking, but he quickly regained his cool as this really was fairly tame considering some of the crazy thing she had seen.

"Sorry, I did not know you were an intelligent beast, I did not mean to offend you."

"Do not worry about it. Now James why did you call me out here." Fallon said looking curiously towards James.

"Fallon, you remember my sister Mrazivý right? This is her friend Marcus and I wanted to introduce you since we may be working together in the future."

Nodding her head Fallon looked towards Mrazivý and said, "Yes I remember this one. We last saw her when we were investigating the ocean around that large city called Loursend some three years ago. It is good to see you Mrazivý, it seems you have grown quiet well since we last met."

"And you are Marcus, the who just appraised me. Well, you do seem quite capable, so I look forward to working with you." Fallon said.

However, Marcus was somewhat dumbfounded by what was going on. He did not ever remember signing up to join the sky knights, or any knight order for that matter.

"Um James what do you mean working with you?" Marcus said wanting to get to the bottom of this.

"Ah, naturally my father told me about the contract you signed to break off Mrazivý's engagement. And when I did some digging about you, I heard from Great Grandmother Aria that you can fly incredibly fast and for prolonged periods of time. So, I have already asked that I have a crack at using you during the winter. During that time is when we are at our busiest and having another talented asset like you would help greatly. Oh, and of course I also want to invite you if you want Mrazivý.. I have heard that you recently obtained a flying beast companion of your own, would you mind calling them over here."