“Lord Jhiax is amazing!” Traluna shouted, sitting up straight in her chair for the first time. “He’s the kind of genius that the world has never seen before! The things he invents and comes up with are like from a whole other world.”
“Traluna,” Gree warned.
“Lord Jhiax is on a whole other level than us!” she said, getting more excited.
“Traluna!” Gree snapped. Traluna shrank back down again at the rebuke.
“He’s an artificer, eh?” Carnivac probed.
“He’s so much more than some artificer. Lord Jhiax is a god among us!” she shouted, perk
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